CVE-2025-46573

passport-wsfed-saml2 Has SAML Authentication Bypass via Attribute Smuggling

State
Published
Severity
8.6 High
Published
May 6, 2025
Updated
May 7, 2025
Reserved
Apr 24, 2025

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Description

passport-wsfed-saml2 provides passport strategy for both WS-fed and SAML2 protocol. A vulnerability present starting in version 3.0.5 up to and including version 4.6.3 allows an attacker to impersonate any user during SAML authentication by tampering with a valid SAML response. This can be done by adding attributes to the response. Users are affected specifically when the service provider is using `passport-wsfed-saml2` and a valid SAML Response signed by the Identity Provider can be obtained. Version 4.6.4 contains a fix for the vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.6 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
passport-wsfed-saml2auth0
  • >= 3.0.5, < 4.6.4Affected

References

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