GHSA-j96g-47x2-46hvCriticalCVSS 9.8
SimpleSAMLphp Session fixation issue and authentication bypass in the authcrypt module
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The secureCompare method in lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/Crypto.php in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.13 and earlier, when used with PHP before 5.6, allows attackers to conduct session fixation attacks or possibly bypass authentication by leveraging missing character conversions before an XOR operation.
🎯 Affected products1
- composer/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp:>= 1.14.12, < 1.14.14
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12868
- https://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/commit/4bc629658e7b7d17c9ac3fe0da7dc5df71f1b85e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00017.html
- https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201705-01
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/CVE-2017-12868.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j96g-47x2-46hv