CVE-2021-39171

MEDIUM

passport-saml < 3.1.0 - Denial of Service via Excessive SAML Transform Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Passport-SAML is a SAML 2.0 authentication provider for Passport, the Node.js authentication library. Prior to version 3.1.0, a malicious SAML payload can require transforms that consume significant system resources to process, thereby resulting in reduced or denied service. This would be an effective way to perform a denial-of-service attack. This has been resolved in version 3.1.0. The resolution is to limit the number of allowable transforms to 2.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/node-saml/passport-saml/pull/595

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0132
EPSS Percentile 67.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
npm/passport-saml 0 - 3.1.0npm
passport-saml_project/passport-saml < 3.1.0
Published Aug 27, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026