Low
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-1899
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-1899
Complete source record
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