high

CVE-2026-49289

Packagist · simplesamlphp/saml2

Summary

SimpleSAMLphp has Possible DoS via XPath Transform

Severity
high
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.6% (p45)
CWE
CWE-400
Also known as
GHSA-5cjr-mxj5-wmrx#simplesamlphp/saml2
Published
2026-07-02
Updated
2026-07-02

Advisory details

Summary

This library turned out to be vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks using XPath transforms. A mitigation has been put in place to restrict the number of transforms and to restrict transforms to only the transform-algorithms mentioned in the SAML 2.0 Core Specifications (and specifically refuse XPath transforms).

Impact

An attacker is able to send specially crafted messages to any entity relying on SimpleSAMLphp (or directly on this SAML2-library) to be able to perform a Denial-of-Service attack.

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Sources: CISA KEV (public domain), OSV.dev & GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY-4.0), FIRST EPSS, NVD/CWE (public domain). Served live from the Stateward advisory database.