CVE-2016-1900

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

Cgit Project Cgit: through 0.11.2
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22

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

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