CRLF Injection Vulnerability in CGit Allows HTTP Response Splitting and XSS Attacks

CVE-2016-1900 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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