CVE-2025-25291
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-12 20:16
Modified
2025-03-20 13:21
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
ruby-saml provides security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) for Ruby. An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in ruby-saml prior to versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 due to a parser differential. ReXML and Nokogiri parse XML differently; the parsers can generate entirely different document structures from the same XML input. That allows an attacker to be able to execute a Signature Wrapping attack. This issue may lead to authentication bypass. Versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 fix the issue.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/03/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-9-2-released
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentials
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e76c5b36bac40aedbf1ba7ffaaf495be63328cd9
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e9c1cdbd0f9afa467b585de279db0cbd0fb8ae97
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.12.4
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.18.0
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-4vc4-m8qh-g8jm
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-hw46-3hmr-x9xv
security-advisories@github.comhttps://portswigger.net/research/saml-roulette-the-hacker-always-wins
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374519
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250314-0010/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SAML-Toolkits ruby-saml Version: < 1.12.4
Version: >= 1.13.0, < 1.18.0
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