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CVE-2020-26290GHSA-2X32-JM95-2CPXGHSA-M9HP-7R99-94H5

Critical security issues in XML encoding in Dex

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.27.0, 1.1.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Dex is a federated OpenID Connect provider written in Go. In Dex before version 2.27.0 there is a critical set of vulnerabilities which impacts users leveraging the SAML connector. The vulnerabilities enables potential signature bypass due to issues with XML encoding in the underlying Go library. The vulnerabilities have been addressed in version 2.27.0 by using the xml-roundtrip-validator from Mattermost (see related references).

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • dexidp dex

    fixed in 2.27.0

  • github.com/dexidp/dexGo

    fixed in 2.27.0

  • github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsigGo

    fixed in 1.1.0

References 8

GitHub · mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator

mattermost.com

GitHub · dexidp/dex

GitHub · russellhaering/goxmldsig