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Medium · 4.4 CVE-2020-5225 EUVD-2020-0249GHSA-6gc6-m364-85ww

Log injection in SimpleSAMLphp

Published Jan 24, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
simplesamlphp SimpleSAMLphp < 1.18.4 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 simplesamlphp 1.18.4-1 —
Debian 12 simplesamlphp 1.18.4-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS simplesamlphp No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS simplesamlphp No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp < 1.18.4 1.18.4 GHSA-6gc6-m364-85ww

References