CVE-2008-3891 (GCVE-0-2008-3891)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:58
VLAI
Summary
The SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Service for Google Apps allows remote service providers to impersonate users at arbitrary service providers via vectors related to authentication responses that lack a request identifier and recipient field.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/612636 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
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