Cross-site scripting in cgit - CVE-2016-1899

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Cross-site scripting in cgit - CVE-2016-1899

Published: January 20, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32341
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1899
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the ui-blob handler in CGit before 0.12. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

cgit
cgit (Alpine package)
cgit
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2016-1899

Update to version 0.12.

cgit - update to 0.12
cgit (Alpine package) - update to 0.10.2-r0
cgit - addressed in versions 0.12-1.el6, 0.12-1.el7, 0.12-1.fc22, 0.12-1.fc23

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