FKIE_CVE-2016-1900

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-01-20 16:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:42
Severity
3.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
CRLF injection vulnerability in the cgit_print_http_headers function in ui-shared.c in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers with permission to write to a repository to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via newline characters in a filename.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=513b3863d999f91b47d7e9f26710390db55f9463
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002790.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.htmlPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=513b3863d999f91b47d7e9f26710390db55f9463
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002790.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.htmlPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 22
cgit_project cgit *
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