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CVE-2017-12873

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-384

Description

SimpleSAMLphp 1.7.0 through 1.14.10 might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information, gain unauthorized access, or have unspecified other impacts by leveraging incorrect persistent NameID generation when an Identity Provider (IdP) is misconfigured.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• simplesamlphp: from 1.7.0 through 1.14.10

References

• https://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/commit/90dca835158495b173808273e7df127303b8b953
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html
• https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-04
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4127
• https://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/commit/90dca835158495b173808273e7df127303b8b953
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00007.html
• https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201612-04
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4127

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