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CVE-2020-5225 Detail

Description

Log 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.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  5.4 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
Base Score:  4.4 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/security/advisories/GHSA-6gc6-m364-85ww Third Party Advisory 
https://simplesamlphp.org/security/202001-02 Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File cwe source acceptance level NIST   Reference acceptance level GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-5225
NVD Published Date:
01/24/2020
NVD Last Modified:
01/31/2020
Source:
GitHub, Inc.