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GHSA-j5g2-q29x-cw3h
No affected components available
Withdrawn Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because the vulnerability affects users of the SimpleSAMLphp tarball, not the SimpleSAMLphp Composer package. The underlying information about CVE-2024-52596 is still valid.
Original Description
Summary
When loading an (untrusted) XML document, for example the SAMLResponse, it's possible to induce an XXE.
Mitigation:
Remove the LIBXML_DTDLOAD | LIBXML_DTDATTR options from $options is in: https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/blob/717c0adc4877ebd58428637e5626345e59fa0109/src/SAML2/DOMDocumentFactory.php#L41
Background / details
To be published on Dec 8th
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability can affect other systems as well, not just the initial system. There is a low impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data. There is a low impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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