Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting simplesamlphp package, versions <1.14.15-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-SIMPLESAMLPHP-1559748
  • published1 Sept 2017
  • disclosed1 Sept 2017

Introduced: 1 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12871  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 simplesamlphp to version 1.14.15-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream simplesamlphp package and not the simplesamlphp package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

The aesEncrypt method in lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/Crypto.php in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.x through 1.14.11 makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the encryption protection mechanism by leveraging use of the first 16 bytes of the secret key as the initialization vector (IV).