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GHSA-5P8W-2MVW-38PV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-10-12 22:05 – Updated: 2022-10-14 19:48

Summary

Signature bypass via multiple root elements

Details

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to bypass SAML authentication on a website using passport-saml. A successful attack requires that the attacker is in possession of an arbitrary IDP signed XML element. Depending on the IDP used, fully unauthenticated attacks (e.g without access to a valid user) might also be feasible if generation of a signed message can be triggered.

Patches

Users should upgrade to node-saml v4.0.0-beta5 or newer.

Workarounds

Disable SAML authentication.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open a discussion in the node-saml repo

Credits

Felix Wilhelm of Google Project Zero

Severity

8.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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  "modified": "2022-10-14T19:48:04Z",
  "published": "2022-10-12T22:05:44Z",
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    },
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Signature bypass via multiple root elements"
}

CVE-2022-39300 (GCVE-0-2022-39300)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-13 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:50

Title

Signature bypass via multiple root elements in node-SAML

Summary

node SAML is a SAML 2.0 library based on the SAML implementation of passport-saml. A remote attacker may be able to bypass SAML authentication on a website using passport-saml. A successful attack requires that the attacker is in possession of an arbitrary IDP signed XML element. Depending on the IDP used, fully unauthenticated attacks (e.g without access to a valid user) might also be feasible if generation of a signed message can be triggered. Users should upgrade to node-saml version 4.0.0-beta5 or newer. Disabling SAML authentication may be done as a workaround.

Severity

7.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 15:47 UTC

CWE

CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/node-saml/node-saml/security/a…
https://github.com/node-saml/node-saml/commit/c1f…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
node-saml	node-saml	Affected: < 4.0.0-beta.5

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