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CVE-2015-1796

Published: Jul 08, 2015 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
6.3 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1796
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/254.html

The PKIX trust engines in Shibboleth Identity Provider before 2.4.4 and OpenSAML Java (OpenSAML-J) before 2.6.5 trust candidate X.509 credentials when no trusted names are available for the entityID, which allows remote attackers to impersonate an entity via a certificate issued by a shibmd:KeyAuthority trust anchor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Identity_provider Shibboleth * 2.4.3 (including)
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.2 RedHat *
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.2 RedHat *
Libopensaml2-java Ubuntu utopic *
Libopensaml2-java Ubuntu vivid *

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