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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2026-5078

morgan vulnerable to Log Forging via unneutralized control characters in :remote-user

Description

Impact: The morgan logging middleware's :remote-user token extracts the Basic auth username from the Authorization request header and writes it to the log stream without neutralizing control characters. An unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted Authorization Basic header containing CR or LF bytes to inject forged log lines, breaking the one-request-per-line structure of access logs and enabling log forgery against downstream log consumers. The built-in combined, common, default, and short formats are affected, as well as any custom format that references :remote-user. Affected versions: morgan 1.2.0 through 1.10.1. Patches: upgrade to morgan 1.11.0, which neutralizes control characters in the :remote-user token output. Workarounds: use a custom format string that does not include :remote-user.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

morgan morgan

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.2.0 to ≤ 1.10.1affected
  • 1.11.0unaffected
pkg:npm/morgan

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