CVE-2016-10149

Summary

CVECVE-2016-10149
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-24 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-01-05 02:30:00 UTC
DescriptionXML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in PySAML2 4.4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted SAML XML request or response.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-611

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Pysaml2 Project Pysaml2 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fix XXE in XML parsing (related to #366) · rohe/pysaml2@6e09a25 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3759-1 python-pysaml2 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
PySAML vulnerable to XXE · Issue #366 · rohe/pysaml2 · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request: python-pysaml2 XML external entity attack MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
python-pysaml2 CVE-2016-10149 XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
#850716 - python-pysaml2: CVE-2016-10149 - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Fix XXE in XML parsing (related to #366) by fruechel · Pull Request #379 · rohe/pysaml2 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981143 Python (pip) Security Update for pysaml2 (GHSA-c2vx-49jm-h3f6)
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