Bug 725042 (CVE-2011-2711)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2711 cgit: XSS flaw in rename hint
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-22 16:42:18 UTC

An cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way cgit, a fast web interface for Git, processed the file name in the rename hint. A remote attacker, valid CGit user with push access to the repository, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary web script or HTML code via a push commit message, renaming some file to a file with specially-crafted file name.

References:
[1] http://hjemli.net/pipermail/cgit/2011-July/000276.html

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-22 16:46:00 UTC

This issue affected the versions of the cgit package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15.

The relevant cgit package updates for Fedora-14 and Fedora-15 has been already scheduled (cgit-0.9.0.2-2.fc14, cgit-0.9.0.2-2.fc15) and once they have passed the required testing phase, they will be pushed to Fedora -stable repository.

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This issue affected the versions of the cgit package, as present within EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 repositories. 

The relevant cgit package updates for EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 has been already scheduled (cgit-0.9.0.2-2.el5, cgit-0.9.0.2-2.el6).

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-22 16:50:41 UTC

CVE Request:
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/2

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-24 13:43:58 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2011-2711 has been assigned to this issue:
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/6

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-24 13:53:38 UTC

Lukas Fleischer, the original issue reporter has suggested in:
[4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/22/7

that original issue description in comment #0 of this bug was inappropriate. So have updated it to reflect it can be exploited only by an user with push access to the repository.