CVE-2016-1900

low
Published 2016-01-20 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
3.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
3.7

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
47%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1900

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1
debian debianforkyfixed0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1
debian debiansidfixed0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1
fedora fedora22affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
cgit_projectcgit{"endIncluding":"0.11.2"}

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.