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Message-ID: <4E2C247C.7040204@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:56:12 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: Lukas Fleischer <cgit@...ptocrack.de>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE Request -- cGit -- XSS flaw in rename
 hint


Hi Lukas,

   thank you for this correction.

On 07/22/2011 10:35 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 06:48:38PM +0200, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
>> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
>>
>>    an cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way cgit, a fast
>> web interface for Git, displayed the file name in the rename hint. A
>> remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted web page, which once
>> visited by an authenticated Cgit user, with push access to the
>> repository, would lead to arbitrary web script or HTML code execution.
>
> I think you are a tad off, here. The vulnerability I discovered actually
> is only exploitable *by* a user with push access as it requires to push
> a commit that renames any file to a file with a malicious file name.

Have updated issue description in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725042#c0

Hoping of it to sound better now.

Thanks again && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

>
> The description (and the categorization of the vulnerability, which
> definitely is a low severity one if it counts as a vulnerability at all)
> should be corrected to reflect that.
>
>>
>> References:
>> [1] http://hjemli.net/pipermail/cgit/2011-July/000276.html
>> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725042
>>
>> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
>>
>> Thank you&&  Regards, Jan.
>> --
>> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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