XML Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby-saml  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-RUBYSAML-664893
  • published23 Jan 2017
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5697  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-91  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-saml package and not the ruby-saml package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Ruby-saml before 1.3.0 allows attackers to perform XML signature wrapping attacks via unspecified vectors.