CVE-2020-5304

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-5304 · Published 08/06/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-5304 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting whitesource (whitesourcesoftware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.00%, higher than 62.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 20.4.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
whitesource whitesourcesoftware	`< 20.4.1`	`20.4.1`

Description

The dashboard in WhiteSource Application Vulnerability Management (AVM) before version 20.4.1 allows Log Injection via a %0A%0D substring in the idp parameter to the /saml/login URI. This closes the current log and creates a new log with one line of data. The attacker can also insert malicious data and false entries.

References

medium.com/%40venkatajayaram.yalla/whitesource-log-injection-vulnerability-cve-2020-5304-e543b7943c2b
whitesourcesoftware.com/oss_security_vulnerabilities · Vendor Advisory

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