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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2025-48995 EUVD-2025-16676GHSA-gmhf-gg8w-jw42PYSEC-2026-1922

SignXML's signature verification with HMAC is vulnerable to a timing attack

Published Jun 2, 2025 · Updated Jun 2, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

SignXML is an implementation of the W3C XML Signature standard in Python. When verifying signatures with X509 certificate validation turned off and HMAC shared secret set (`signxml.XMLVerifier.verify(require_x509=False, hmac_key=...`), versions of SignXML prior to 4.0.4 are vulnerable to a potential timing attack. The verifier may leak information about the correct HMAC when comparing it with the user supplied hash, allowing users to reconstruct the correct HMAC for any data.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
XML-Security signxml < 4.0.4 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-signxml 4.0.5+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 python-signxml 4.0.5+dfsg-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-signxml No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-signxml No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 python-signxml No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI signxml < 4.0.4 4.0.4 GHSA-gmhf-gg8w-jw42

References