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Medium · 4.4 CVE-2020-5226 EUVD-2020-0271GHSA-mj9p-v2r8-wf8w

Cross-site scripting in SimpleSAMLphp

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

Description

Cross-site scripting in SimpleSAMLphp before version 1.18.4. The www/erroreport.php script allows error reports to be submitted and sent to the system administrator. Starting with SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.0, a new SimpleSAML\Utils\EMail class was introduced to handle sending emails, implemented as a wrapper of an external dependency. This new wrapper allows us to use Twig templates in order to create the email sent with an error report. Since Twig provides automatic escaping of variables, manual escaping of the free-text field in www/errorreport.php was removed to avoid double escaping. However, for those not using the new user interface yet, an email template is hardcoded into the class itself in plain PHP. Since no escaping is provided in this template, it is then possible to inject HTML inside the template by manually crafting the contents of the free-text field.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
simplesamlphp SimpleSAMLphp >= 1.18.0, < 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 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp >= 1.18.0, < 1.18.4 1.18.4 GHSA-mj9p-v2r8-wf8w

References