Bug 1298851 (CVE-2016-1899) - CVE-2016-1899 cgit: Reflected XSS and header injection in mimetype query string
Summary: CVE-2016-1899 cgit: Reflected XSS and header injection in mimetype query string
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-1899
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1298852 1298853
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-15 09:30 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:42 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: cgit 0.12
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:47:25 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-15 09:30:16 UTC
It was found that ui-blob handler accepted a mimetype as a query string and then echoed this string verbatim back. A malicious user could provide a string like:

http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/blob/cgit.c?mimetype=text/html%0d%0a%0d%0a<script>xss</script>

Upstream patch:

http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=1c581a072651524f3b0d91f33e22a42c4166dd96

CVE assignment:

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-01-15 09:30:50 UTC
Created cgit tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1298852]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1298853]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-01-26 03:18:53 UTC
cgit-0.12-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-01-26 18:26:10 UTC
cgit-0.12-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-02-01 22:54:31 UTC
cgit-0.12-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-02-01 23:24:37 UTC
cgit-0.12-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:47:25 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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