rohe/pysaml2 · Security
pysaml2 Improper Authentication vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-924m-4pmx-c67h
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-1000433
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 9.2 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
pysaml2 version 4.4.0 and older accept any password when run with python optimizations enabled. This allows attackers to log in as any user without knowing their password.
CWEs
- CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000433 ↗
- https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/issues/451 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00000.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00038.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-11 ↗
- https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/pull/454 ↗
- https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/commit/6312a41e037954850867f29d329e5007df1424a5 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-924m-4pmx-c67h ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pysaml2/PYSEC-2018-48.yaml ↗