Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-53424

CVE-2026-53424

dropbox samly — Missing one-time-use enforcement in Samly allows replay of SAML bearer assertions

Description · from the CVE record

Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in dropbox samly allows an attacker to authenticate as the subject of a captured SAML assertion by resubmitting it. Samly.Helper.decode_idp_auth_resp/3 in lib/samly/helper.ex calls esaml_sp:validate_assertion/2, whose default duplicate detector is a no-op. The /3 arity accepting a DuplicateFun exists in esaml and implements the check, but Samly never calls it and offers no configuration to supply one, so the SAML 2.0 Web Browser SSO Profile requirement that a bearer assertion be used once is unenforced. An attacker holding a valid SAMLResponse obtained from the network, from browser history, or from logs can submit the identical bytes repeatedly until the assertion's NotOnOrAfter passes, each time establishing a session as the assertion's subject. This issue affects samly: from 0.3.0 onward.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
samly0.3.0–CNA
samly8a5bb1b4a4753d05470da2036323477f63cfdf4c–CNA
samly8a5bb1b4a4753d05470da2036323477f63cfdf4c–CNA

Scores by source

EEF (CNA)9.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/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

writeupcna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-53424.htmlrefosv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-53424