What is GHSA-78fq-w796-q537?

GHSA-78fq-w796-q537 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Improper Certificate Validation in Shibboleth Identity Provider and OpenSAML

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-78fq-w796-q537 cover?

GHSA-78fq-w796-q537 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2015-1796. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

Which products are affected by GHSA-78fq-w796-q537?

GHSA-78fq-w796-q537 affects 2 products, including: maven/org.opensaml:opensaml:\u003c= 2.6.4; maven/edu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityprovider:\u003c= 2.4.3.

GHSA-78fq-w796-q537Medium

Improper Certificate Validation in Shibboleth Identity Provider and OpenSAML

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 17, 2022

Last Modified

January 27, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2015-1796 →

📋 Description

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 products2

maven/org.opensaml:opensaml:<= 2.6.4
maven/edu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityprovider:<= 2.4.3

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1796
https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150225.txt
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1176.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1177.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-78fq-w796-q537