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CVE-2016-1899

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1899 describes a CRLF injection vulnerability in CGit before version 0.12, affecting CGit and Fedora projects. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers through the mimetype parameter, leading to HTTP response splitting or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.7, indicating a network attack vector with high attack complexity and a low impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cgit_project:cgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.7LOW

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
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 1,505 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

git.zx2c4.com / cgit/commit
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html
lists.zx2c4.com / pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002790.html
lists.zx2c4.com / pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.html
Patch
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3545
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6