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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1900 (CVE-2016-1900)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2016-01-20 16:59 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:51 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

Details

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.

Severity

3.7 (Low)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1900	REPORT
	http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=513b3863d999…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1900	REPORT

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CVE-2016-1900 (GCVE-0-2016-1900)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-20 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:10

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

10 references

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-Januar…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-Januar…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=513b3863d999…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Date Public

2016-01-13 00:00

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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1900 (CVE-2016-1900)

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