UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1899

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1899
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1899.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1899
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:24Z
Published
2016-01-20T16:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:34:06.711728Z
Severity
  • 3.7 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / cgit

Package

Name
cgit
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/cgit@0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.11.2.git2.3.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "cgit",
            "binary_version": "0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "cgit-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1"
        }
    ]
}