CVE-2026-49289 (GCVE-0-2026-49289)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-19 14:48
Modified
2026-08-19 18:04
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
The SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 library is a PHP library for SAML2 related functionality. In 4.19.2 and 4.20.2, the library permits attacker-controlled XPath transforms while processing XML signatures in specially crafted SAML messages. XPath evaluation can consume uncontrolled processing resources, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to deny service to any entity relying on SimpleSAMLphp or directly on the SAML2 library. The mitigation limits the number of transforms, permits only transform algorithms identified by the SAML 2.0 Core specification, and specifically rejects XPath transforms. This issue is fixed in versions 4.19.3 and 4.20.3.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
simplesamlphp saml2 Version: >= 4.19.2, < 4.19.3
Version: >= 4.20.2, < 4.20.3
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