CVE-2020-5225

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-5225
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-24 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-01-31 19:11:00 UTC
DescriptionLog injection in SimpleSAMLphp before version 1.18.4. The www/erroreport.php script, which receives error reports and sends them via email to the system administrator, did not properly sanitize the report identifier obtained from the request. This allows an attacker, under specific circumstances, to inject new log lines by manually crafting this report ID. When configured to use the file logging handler, SimpleSAMLphp will output all its logs by appending each log line to a given file. Since the reportID parameter received in a request sent to www/errorreport.php was not properly sanitized, it was possible to inject newline characters into it, effectively allowing a malicious user to inject new log lines with arbitrary content.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-532

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Simplesamlphp Simplesamlphp All All All All
Application Simplesamlphp Simplesamlphp All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SimpleSAMLphp MISC simplesamlphp.org Vendor Advisory
Log injection · Advisory · simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180618 Debian Security Update for simplesamlphp (CVE-2020-5225)
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