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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-53424 EEF-CVE-2026-53424EUVD-2026-63490GHSA-5x87-gf34-8ww7

Missing one-time-use enforcement in Samly allows replay of SAML bearer assertions

Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 21, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in dropbox samly allows an attacker to authenticate as the subject of a captured SAML assertion by resubmitting it.

Samly.Helper.decode_idp_auth_resp/3 in lib/samly/helper.ex calls esaml_sp:validate_assertion/2, whose default duplicate detector is a no-op. The /3 arity accepting a DuplicateFun exists in esaml and implements the check, but Samly never calls it and offers no configuration to supply one, so the SAML 2.0 Web Browser SSO Profile requirement that a bearer assertion be used once is unenforced. An attacker holding a valid SAMLResponse obtained from the network, from browser history, or from logs can submit the identical bytes repeatedly until the assertion's NotOnOrAfter passes, each time establishing a session as the assertion's subject.

This issue affects samly: from 0.3.0 onward.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
dropbox samly 0.3.0 —
handnot2 samly — —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex samly >= 0.3.0 — EEF-CVE-2026-53424

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