CVE-2016-9814
CRITICAL9.1EPSS 0.83%simplesamlphp - security update
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The validateSignature method in the SAML2\Utils class in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.10 and simplesamlphp/saml2 library before 1.9.1, 1.10.x before 1.10.3, and 2.x before 2.3.3 allows remote attackers to spoof SAML responses or possibly cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging improper conversion of return values to boolean.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/simplesamlphpfrom 0, < 1.14.10-1
- Debian/simplesamlphpfrom 0, < 1.9.2-1+deb7u3
- Packagist/simplesamlphp/saml2>= 1.10, < 1.10.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9814
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9814
- PATCHhttps://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp
- WEBhttps://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/simplesamlphp/saml2/CVE-2016-9814.yaml
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00001.html
- WEBhttps://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-01
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94730