CVE-2016-1899

low-risk
Published 2016-01-20

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.65% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
3
CVSS 3.7/10 Low
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (2)

Cgit

Affected Vendors

22
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low-risk
Severity 13/34 · Low
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low