CVE-2018-7711

NameCVE-2018-7711
DescriptionHTTPRedirect.php in the saml2 library in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.15.4 has an incorrect check of return values in the signature validation utilities, allowing an attacker to get invalid signatures accepted as valid by forcing an error during validation. This occurs because of a dependency on PHP functionality that interprets a -1 error code as a true boolean value.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1314-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
simplesamlphp (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.13.1-2+deb8u3vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.14.11-1+deb9u2vulnerable
buster1.16.3-1+deb10u2fixed
buster (security)1.16.3-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye1.19.0-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm1.19.7-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
simplesamlphpsourcewheezy1.9.2-1+deb7u4DLA-1314-1
simplesamlphpsource(unstable)1.15.4-1

Notes

[stretch] - simplesamlphp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - simplesamlphp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
failure mode hard to trigger for an attacker, signing of redirect binding in many cases not that important
https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201803-01
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/saml2/commit/4f6af7f69f29df8555a18b9bb7b646906b45924d

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