Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-1796 - 7PK - Security Features vulnerability in Shibboleth Identity Provider and Opensaml Java

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE

Summary

The PKIX trust engines in Shibboleth Identity Provider before 2.4.4 and OpenSAML Java (OpenSAML-J) before 2.6.5 trust candidate X.509 credentials when no trusted names are available for the entityID, which allows remote attackers to impersonate an entity via a certificate issued by a shibmd:KeyAuthority trust anchor.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Shibboleth
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Redhat

advisories
  • rhsa
    idRHSA-2015:1176
  • rhsa
    idRHSA-2015:1177