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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-7644): simplesamlphp vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 5, 2018
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

Description

The XmlSecLibs library as used in the saml2 library in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.15.3 incorrectly verifies signatures on SAML assertions, allowing a remote attacker to construct a crafted SAML assertion on behalf of an Identity Provider that would pass as cryptographically valid, thereby allowing them to impersonate a user from that Identity Provider, aka a key confusion issue.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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