CVE-2020-5407

HIGH

Spring Security 5.2.0-5.2.3 and 5.3.0-5.3.1 - SAML Signature Wrapping via Assertion Injection

Title source: llm

Description

Spring Security versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.4 and 5.3.x prior to 5.3.2 contain a signature wrapping vulnerability during SAML response validation. When using the spring-security-saml2-service-provider component, a malicious user can carefully modify an otherwise valid SAML response and append an arbitrary assertion that Spring Security will accept as valid.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r73af928cf64bebf78b7fa4bc56a5253273ec7829f5f5827f64c72fc7%40%3Cissues.servicemix.apache.org%3E

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd99601fbca514f214f88f9e53fd5be3cfbff05b350c994b4ec2e184c%40%3Cdev.geode.apache.org%3E

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra19a4e7236877fe12bfb52db07b27ad72d9e7a9f5e27bba7e928e18a%40%3Cdev.geode.apache.org%3E

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2020-5407

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0120

EPSS Percentile 64.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-347

Status published

Products (2)

org.springframework.security/spring-security-core 5.2.0 - 5.2.4Maven

pivotal_software/spring_security 5.2.0 - 5.2.4

Published May 13, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026