CVE-2016-9814

Severity

85%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

130%

The validateSignature method in the SAML2\Utils class in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.10 and simplesamlphp/saml2 library before 1.9.1, 1.10.x before 1.10.3, and 2.x before 2.3.3 allows remote attackers to spoof SAML responses or possibly cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging improper conversion of return values to boolean.

The validateSignature method in the SAML2\Utils class in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.10 and simplesamlphp/saml2 library before 1.9.1, 1.10.x before 1.10.3, and 2.x before 2.3.3 allows remote attackers to spoof SAML responses or possibly cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging improper conversion of return values to boolean.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 9.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 8.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C).

Overview

Type

SimpleSAMLphp

First reported 8 years ago

2017-02-17 02:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-03-04 02:29:00

Affected Software

SimpleSAMLphp 1.10

1.10

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 1.10

1.10

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 1.10.1

1.10.1

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 1.10.2

1.10.2

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 2.0.0

2.0.0

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 2.0.1

2.0.1

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 2.1

2.1

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 2.2

2.2

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 2.3

2.3

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 2.3.1

2.3.1

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 2.3.2

2.3.2

References

94730

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

[debian-lts-announce] 20180302 [SECURITY] [DLA 1297-1] simplesamlphp security update

https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-01

Vendor Advisory

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