Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-49454

CVE-2026-49454

szTheory relyra — Relyra SAML SignatureValue not cryptographically verified -> authentication bypass

Description · from the CVE record

Relyra is a strict-by-default SAML 2.0 Service Provider library for Elixir and Phoenix. Versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 accept forged SAML signatures because SignatureValue was not cryptographically verified before the library returned a successful authentication result. The XMLDSig trust boundary was incomplete as :public_key.verify over the exclusive-C14N canonicalized SignedInfo was not performed against the configured IdP certificate's public key, DigestValue was not recomputed over the canonicalized referenced element, and canonicalize/2 remained an unused passthrough in the signature-verification path. The result was a structure-only acceptance path where document shape and trust-source rejection could succeed without proving the signature bytes. A forged SignatureValue carrying an attacker-controlled NameID could be accepted as {:ok}. This issue has been fixed in version 1.2.0.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
relyra>= 1.0.0, < 1.2.0–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/szTheory/relyra/security/advisories/GHSA-jv46-xfwm-36j7refgithub.com/szTheory/relyra/commit/2e456897af3158c175bb490ce7fc51d6241c8922refgithub.com/szTheory/relyra/commit/8910200