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High · 8.6 CVE-2025-46573 EUVD-2025-13640GHSA-8gqj-226h-gm8r

passport-wsfed-saml2 Has SAML Authentication Bypass via Attribute Smuggling

Published May 6, 2025 · Updated May 7, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

passport-wsfed-saml2 provides passport strategy for both WS-fed and SAML2 protocol. A vulnerability present starting in version 3.0.5 up to and including version 4.6.3 allows an attacker to impersonate any user during SAML authentication by tampering with a valid SAML response. This can be done by adding attributes to the response. Users are affected specifically when the service provider is using `passport-wsfed-saml2` and a valid SAML Response signed by the Identity Provider can be obtained. Version 4.6.4 contains a fix for the vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
auth0 passport-wsfed-saml2 >= 3.0.5, < 4.6.4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm passport-wsfed-saml2 >= 3.0.5, < 4.6.4 4.6.4 GHSA-8gqj-226h-gm8r

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