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CVE-2016-1900
CRLF injection vulnerability in the cgit_print_http_headers function in ui-shared.c in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers with…
Low3.7EPSS 1.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- [oss-security] 20160114 CVE Request: CGit - Multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0218 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [CGit] 20160114 [ANNOUNCE] CGIT v0.12 Released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [CGit] 20160113 XSS in cgit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-e5a5fb196f (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0196 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=513b3863d999f91b47d7e9f26710390db55f9463 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160114 Re: CVE Request: CGit - Multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3545 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-215b507409 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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