It was found that the UsernamePasswordMako class relies on an assert statement to check the user's password. A python optimizations might remove this assertion, making the authentication form accept any password for any user. Upstream issue: https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/issues/451 Upstream patch: https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/commit/6312a41e037954850867f29d329e5007df1424a5
Created python-pysaml2 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1516163]
Statement: Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 * Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) * Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka) * Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) * Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) * Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike) Although the affected code is present in shipped packages, python-pysaml2 is included only as a dependency of other packages. The affected code cannot be reached in any supported configuration of Red Hat OpenStack Platform. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.