XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting pysaml2 package, versions [,4.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYSAML2-40373
  • published 6 Oct 2016
  • disclosed 6 Oct 2016
  • credit Matias P. Brutti

Overview

via a crafted SAML XML request or response.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.5 high
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Red Hat

5.3 medium