CVE-2016-1901

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

EPSS

4%p89

Published

Jan 20, 2016 (Jan 20, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in the authenticate_post function in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large value in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Vendors: fedoraproject cgit project
Products: fedora, cgit
Weakness: CWE-119
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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