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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-64855 EUVD-2026-123572

soapbar: verify_envelope_bsp accepts an unauthenticated embedded certificate (signature forgery / authentication bypass)

Published Nov 11, 2026 · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

soapbar is a SOAP library for Python — client, server, and WSDL handling. Prior to version 0.13.0, verify_envelope_bsp() derived its trust anchor from the message it was verifying. It read the X.509 certificate out of the caller-untrusted wsse:BinarySecurityToken, validated only that certificate's not-before / not-after dates, and then verified the signature against that same certificate. There was no CA-chain validation, no issuer/subject allowlist, and no pinning. A successful verify_envelope_bsp() therefore proved only that the envelope was signed by whoever supplied the embedded certificate — never that it was signed by a trusted party. An attacker who mints their own certificate, signs a forged envelope, and embeds that certificate in the token passes verification. Any consumer that treats a successful BSP verification as authentication can be impersonated (signature forgery / authentication bypass). verify_envelope() (which pins a caller-supplied x509_cert) was not affected — the flaw was specific to the BSP variant whose trust anchor came from the message. This issue has been patched in version 0.13.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
hitoshyamamoto soapbar < 0.13.0 —

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