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CVSS 8.7 HIGH Vulnerability

CVE-2026-49283: SimpleSAMLphp HTTP-Artifact TLS validator confusion allows cross-IdP authentication bypass

Summary SimpleSAMLphp's HTTP-Artifact receive path can treat an unsigned embedded SAML Response as cryptographically valid for the wrong IdP. In the HTTPArtifact::receive() flow, the SOAP ArtifactResponse receives a TLS…

8.7CVSS Score
HIGHSeverity
NOCISA KEV
VulnerabilityImpact Type

📋 Vulnerability Details

CVE IDCVE-2026-49283
Vendorcomposer
Affected Productsimplesamlphp/saml2
Vulnerability TypeVulnerability
CVSS Score8.7 (HIGH)
Actively Exploited❌ No known exploitation
Patch StatusSee Vendor Advisory →
Reported ByCYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories)

🔬 Technical Analysis

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Summary SimpleSAMLphp's HTTP-Artifact receive path can treat an unsigned embedded SAML Response as cryptographically valid for the wrong IdP. In the HTTPArtifact::receive() flow, the SOAP ArtifactResponse receives a TLS-based validator from SOAPClient::addSSLValidator(). The embedded SAML Response then receives a validator that delegates signature validation to that outer ArtifactResponse. Later, the SP validates the embedded Response against metadata selected from the embedded response issuer, not necessarily the artifact issuer. The critical issue is that SOAPClient::validateSSL() returns normally when the TLS public key does not match the key currently being validated. SAML2\Message::validate() treats any validator call that does not throw an exception as successful

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