Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-25292

CVE-2025-25292

SAML-Toolkits ruby-saml — Ruby SAML vulnerable to SAML authentication bypass due to namespace handling (parser differential)

Description · from the CVE record

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 contain a patch for the issue.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
ruby-saml< 1.12.4–CNA
ruby-saml>= 1.13.0, < 1.18.0–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-754f-8gm6-c4r2refgithub.com/omniauth/omniauth-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-hw46-3hmr-x9xvrefgithub.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e76c5b36bac40aedbf1ba7ffaaf495be63328cd9refgithub.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e9c1cdbd0f9afa467b585de279db0cbd0fb8ae97refabout.gitlab.com/releases/2025/03/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-9-2-releasedrefgithub.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentialsrefgithub.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.12.4refgithub.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.18.0refportswigger.net/research/saml-roulette-the-hacker-always-winsrefsecuritylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-329_GHSL-2024-330_ruby-samlrefsecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250314-0009refnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374519reflists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00011.html