National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2711
Original release date:08/03/2011
Last revised:09/07/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the print_fileinfo function in ui-diff.c in cgit 0.9.0.2 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename associated with the rename hint.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725042
Type: Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 74050
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110724 Re: Re: CVE Request -- cGit -- XSS flaw in rename hint
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110724 Re: Re: CVE Request -- cGit -- XSS flaw in rename hint
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110722 Re: CVE Request -- cGit -- XSS flaw in rename hint
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110722 CVE Request -- cGit -- XSS flaw in rename hint
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [cgit] 20110722 [PATCH] Fix potential XSS vulnerability in rename hint
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/commit/?h=stable&id=bebe89d7c11a92bf206bf6e528c51ffa8ecbc0d5
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2011:0891
External Source: XF
Name: cgit-renamehint-xss(68754)
External Source: BID
Name: 48866
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110722 Re: CVE Request -- cGit -- XSS flaw in rename hint
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 45541
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 45358
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)