CRLF injection in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2020-11441
Published: April 1, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU26522
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11441
CWE-ID: CWE-93
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: phpMyAdmin
Affected software:
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin
Detailed vulnerability 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-11441
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.