CVE-2018-6519 (GCVE-0-2018-6519)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-02 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:10
VLAI
Summary
The SAML2 library before 1.10.4, 2.x before 2.3.5, and 3.x before 3.1.1 in SimpleSAMLphp has a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability for fraction-of-seconds data in a timestamp.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201801-01 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4127 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2018-02-01 00:00
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