CVE-2016-1899

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Published 2016-01-20 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

3.7

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.7

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

47%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
22	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1`
sid	Fixed	`0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1`
forky	Fixed	`0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
cgit_project	cgit	`{"endIncluding":"0.11.2"}`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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