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low 3.7

CVE-2016-1900 json

CRLF injection vulnerability in the cgit_print_http_headers function in ui-shared.c in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers with permis…

published 2016-01-20 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2994

cvss
3.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • cgit Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1900

  • cgit openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.0-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10137-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1900 updated cvss 4.3

cgit: Stored Cross Site Scripting & Header Injection in Filename Parameter

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 3.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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