CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9814

Published: Feb 17, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.1
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
8.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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The validateSignature method in the SAML2Utils 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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
SimplesamlphpSimplesamlphp*1.14.9 (including)
SimplesamlphpSimplesamlphp1.10 (including)1.10 (including)
SimplesamlphpUbuntuartful*
SimplesamlphpUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
SimplesamlphpUbuntuprecise*
SimplesamlphpUbuntutrusty*
SimplesamlphpUbuntuupstream*
SimplesamlphpUbuntuxenial*
SimplesamlphpUbuntuyakkety*
SimplesamlphpUbuntuzesty*

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