CVE-2016-1900

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    CVE-2016-1900

    Published: 20 Jan 2016Last Modified: 6 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    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.

    References: http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=513b3863d999f91b47d7e9f26710390db55f9463, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html, http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002790.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6, http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545, http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v0.11.2
    v0.11.1
    v0.11.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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