Information Exposure Affecting simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp package, versions <1.14.13


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SIMPLESAMLPHPSIMPLESAMLPHP-72006
  • published6 Feb 2018
  • disclosed26 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-12870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp to version 1.14.13 or higher.

Overview

simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp is an application written in native PHP that deals with authentication.

Affected version of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Man-in-the-middle attackers may obtain sensitive information by leveraging use of the aesEncrypt and aesDecrypt methods in the SimpleSAML/Utils/Crypto class to protect session identifiers in replies to non-HTTPS service providers.

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