CVE-2012-4465: Lars Hjemli Cgit

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the substr function in parsing.c in cgit 0.9.0.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an empty username in the "Author" field in a commit.

Affected products

• Lars Hjemli Cgit: up to and including 0.9.0.3; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2012-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.