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.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545

http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.html

http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002790.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html

http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=1c581a072651524f3b0d91f33e22a42c4166dd96

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3