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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.