Package Instance

Improper Input Validation
Rob Richards XmlSecLibs, as used for example by SimpleSAMLphp, performs incorrect validation of cryptographic signatures in XML messages, allowing an authenticated attacker to impersonate others or elevate privileges by creating a crafted XML message.

The SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 library incorrectly verifies signatures for HTTP-Redirect binding
There's a signature confusion attack in the HTTPRedirect binding. An attacker with any signed SAMLResponse via the HTTP-Redirect binding can cause the application to accept an unsigned message.

I believe that it exists for v4 only. I have not yet developed a PoC.

V5 is well designed and instead builds the signed query from the same message that will be consumed.

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 has an XXE in parsing SAML messages
Summary

When loading an (untrusted) XML document, for example the SAMLResponse, it's possible to induce an XXE.

SimpleSAMLphp xml-common XXE vulnerability
When loading an (untrusted) XML document, for example the SAMLResponse, it's possible to induce an XXE.

Injection Vulnerability
The SAML2 library in `SimpleSAMLphp` has a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability for fraction-of-seconds data in a timestamp.

Improper signature validation
The `XmlSecLibs` library as used in the saml2 library in SimpleSAMLphp 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.

Incorrect signature validation
An incorrect check of return values in the signature validation utilities allows an attacker to get invalid signatures accepted as valid by forcing an error during validation.

Incorrect signature verification
An incorrect check of return values in the signature validation utilities allows an attacker to get invalid signatures accepted as valid by forcing an error during validation.