CVE-2025-25291 (GCVE-0-2025-25291)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-12 20:16 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:44
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Title
ruby-saml vulnerable to SAML authentication bypass due to DOCTYPE handling (parser differential)
Summary
ruby-saml provides security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) for Ruby. An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in ruby-saml prior to versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 due to a parser differential. ReXML and Nokogiri parse XML differently; the parsers can generate entirely different document structures from the same XML input. That allows an attacker to be able to execute a Signature Wrapping attack. This issue may lead to authentication bypass. Versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 fix the issue.
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
  • CWE-436 - Interpretation Conflict
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SAML-Toolkits ruby-saml Affected: < 1.12.4
Affected: >= 1.13.0, < 1.18.0
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