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CVE-2015-1796
The PKIX trust engines in Shibboleth Identity Provider before 2.4.4 and OpenSAML Java (OpenSAML-J) before 2.6.5 trust candidate X.509…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.2%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
The PKIX trust engines in Shibboleth Identity Provider before 2.4.4 and OpenSAML Java (OpenSAML-J) before 2.6.5 trust candidate X.509 credentials when no trusted names are available for the entityID, which allows remote attackers to impersonate an entity via a certificate issued by a shibmd:KeyAuthority trust anchor.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenedu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityproviderGHSA-78fq-w796-q537 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.opensaml:opensamlGHSA-78fq-w796-q537 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- RHSA-2015:1176 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150225.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 75370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-78fq-w796-q537 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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