CRLF injection in phpMyAdmin

1) CRLF injection

EUVDB-ID: #VU26522

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11441

CWE-ID: CWE-93 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CRLF injection attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data, as demonstrated by %0D%0Astring%0D%0A inputs to login form fields. A remote attacker can cause HTML entity injection at the very least, or reflected XSS at the very worst.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

phpMyAdmin: 5.0.2

External links

http://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/16056

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.