Bug 1794740 (CVE-2020-5390) - CVE-2020-5390 python-pysaml2: does not check that the signature in a SAML document is enveloped
Summary: CVE-2020-5390 python-pysaml2: does not check that the signature in a SAML doc...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2020-5390
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1794741 1794742 1795501 1795502 1795503
Blocks: 1794743
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Reported: 2020-01-24 14:06 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-10-28 01:55 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: python-pysaml2 5.0.0
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A verification flaw was found in python-pysaml2, where it did not check that the signature in a SAML document was enveloped, which enabled XML signature wrapping (XSW) attacks. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to convince SAML processing to verify the signature and accept malicious data. This issue specifically affects the verification of signed SAML assertions.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-28 01:55:35 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-01-24 14:06:03 UTC 
PySAML2 before 5.0.0 does not check that the signature in a SAML document is enveloped and thus signature wrapping is effective, i.e., it is affected by XML Signature Wrapping (XSW). The signature information and the node/object that is signed can be in different places and thus the signature verification will succeed, but the wrong data will be used. This specifically affects the verification of assertion that have been signed.

References and upstream commits:
https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/commit/5e9d5acbcd8ae45c4e736ac521fd2df5b1c62e25
https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/commit/f27c7e7a7010f83380566a219fd6a290a00f2b6e
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-01-24 14:06:23 UTC 
Created python-pysaml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1794741]
Affects: openstack-rdo [bug 1794742]
Comment 3 Summer Long 2020-01-29 00:30:39 UTC 
Statement:

All versions of Red Hat OpenStack Platform ship but do not use the flawed check-signature functionality of python-pysaml2. The impact for these products is therefore rated as having a security impact of Low.
Comment 5 Summer Long 2020-01-29 00:55:08 UTC 
Mitigation:

There is no known mitigation for this issue, the flaw can only be resolved by applying updates.
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