# CVE-2026-53424: Missing one-time-use enforcement in Samly allows replay of SAML bearer assertions

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-21

## Affected

- samly: from 0.3.0
- dropbox/samly: version range not reported
- handnot2/samly: version range not reported

## Description

Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in dropbox samly allows an attacker to authenticate as the subject of a captured SAML assertion by resubmitting it. Samly.Helper.decode_idp_auth_resp/3 in lib/samly/helper.ex calls esaml_sp:validate_assertion/2, whose default duplicate detector is a no-op. The /3 arity accepting a DuplicateFun exists in esaml and implements the check, but Samly never calls it and offers no configuration to supply one, so the SAML 2.0 Web Browser SSO Profile requirement that a bearer assertion be used once is unenforced. An attacker holding a valid SAMLResponse obtained from the network, from browser history, or from logs can submit the identical bytes repeatedly until the assertion's NotOnOrAfter passes, each time establishing a session as the assertion's subject. This issue affects samly: from 0.3.0 onward.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on samly, dropbox/samly, handnot2/samly, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-53424.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-53424

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