CVE-2015-1796

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The PKIX trust engines in Shibboleth Identity Provider before 2.4.4 and OpenSAML Java (OpenSAML-J) before 2.6.5 trust candidate X.509 credentials when no trusted names are available for the entityID, which allows remote attackers to impersonate an entity via a certificate issued by a shibmd:KeyAuthority trust anchor.

Affected products

Shibboleth Identity Provider: through 2.4.3
Shibboleth Opensaml Java: through 2.6.4

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1176.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1177.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75370
https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150225.txt
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1176.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1177.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75370
https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150225.txt

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