CVE-2016-1899

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the ui-blob handler in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via CRLF sequences in the mimetype parameter, as demonstrated by a request to blob/cgit.c.

3.7

CVSS

Severity: Low

CVSS 3.0 •

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 0.72% Top 30%

Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3	mailing list patch
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html	vendor advisory
http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.html	mailing list patch
http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002790.html	mailing list
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html	vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html	vendor advisory
http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=1c581a072651524f3b0d91f33e22a42c4166dd96
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6	mailing list
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545	vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-1899?: CVE-2016-1899 has been scored as a low severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2016-1899?: To fix CVE-2016-1899, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2016-1899 being actively exploited in the wild?: As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2016-1899 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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