CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-21238

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Published: Jan 21, 2021 | Modified: Jan 29, 2021
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

PySAML2 is a pure python implementation of SAML Version 2 Standard. PySAML2 before 6.5.0 has an improper verification of cryptographic signature vulnerability. All users of pysaml2 that need to validate signed SAML documents are impacted. The vulnerability is a variant of XML Signature wrapping because it did not validate the SAML document against an XML schema. This allowed invalid XML documents to be processed and such a document can trick pysaml2 with a wrapped signature. This is fixed in PySAML2 6.5.0.

Weakness

The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pysaml2 Pysaml2_project * 6.5.0 (excluding)
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu bionic *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu focal *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu groovy *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu hirsute *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu impish *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu jammy *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu kinetic *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu trusty *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu upstream *
Python-pysaml2 Ubuntu xenial *

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