Upstream information

CVE-2016-1899 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.7
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 961916 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2016:0196-1 openSUSE-SU-2016:0218-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • cgit >= 1.0-1.3
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10137

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jan 14 16:47:32 2016
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:24:25 2025