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CVE-2016-1899

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-01-20 cgit -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-1899
Phase Assigned(20160114)

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

Source Reference
MLIST [CGit] 20160113 XSS in cgit
MLIST [CGit] 20160114 [ANNOUNCE] CGIT v0.12 Released
MLIST [oss-security] 20160114 CVE Request: CGit - Multiple vulnerabilities
MLIST [oss-security] 20160114 Re: CVE Request: CGit - Multiple vulnerabilities
CONFIRM http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=1c581a072651524f3b0d91f33e22a42c4166dd96
FEDORA FEDORA-2016-215b507409