CVE-2016-1900: Cgit Project Cgit

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cgit Project Cgit: up to and including 0.11.2
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only

Published 2016-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.