Weak Encryption Affecting pysaml2 package, versions [,4.6.0)


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.07% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYSAML2-42108
  • published 28 May 2018
  • disclosed 17 Nov 2017
  • credit Predrag Gruevski

How to fix?

Upgrade pysaml2 to version 4.6.0 or higher.

Overview

pysaml2 is a Python implementation of SAML Version 2

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to weak encryption due to reusage of the initialization vector across encryptions in the IDP server.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.3 medium
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Red Hat

5.3 medium