CVE-2019-3465

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-347

Description

Rob Richards XmlSecLibs, all versions prior to v3.0.3, as used for example by SimpleSAMLphp, performed incorrect validation of cryptographic signatures in XML messages, allowing an authenticated attacker to impersonate others or elevate privileges by creating a crafted XML message.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
simplesamlphp: through 1.17.6
robrichards xmlseclibs: from 1.0.0 through 1.4.2; from 2.0.0 through 2.1.0; from 3.0.0 through 3.0.3

References

https://github.com/robrichards/xmlseclibs/commit/0a53d3c3aa87564910cae4ed01416441d3ae0db5
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00003.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KID7C4AZPYYIZQIPSLANP4R2RQR6YK3/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AB34ILMJ67CUROBOR6YPKB46VHXLOAJ4/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BBKVDUZ7G5ZOUO4BFJWLNJ6VOKBQJX5U/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BNFMY5RRLU63P25HEBVDO5KAVI7TX7JV/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ESKJTWLE7QZBQ3EKMYXKMBQG3JDEJWM6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HBE2SJSXG7J4XYLJ2H6HC2VPPOG2OMUN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MAWOVYLZKYDCQBLQEJCFAAD3KQTBPHXE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OCSR3V6LNWJAD37VQB6M2K7P4RQSCVFG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XBSSRV5Q7JFCYO46A3EN624UZ4KXFQ2M/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/8

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