Medium severity · published Mar 3, 2023
CVE-2023-26483
gosaml2 vulnerable to Denial of Service via deflate decompression bomb
5.3
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
gosaml2 is a Pure Go implementation of SAML 2.0. SAML Service Providers using this library for SAML authentication support are likely susceptible to Denial of Service attacks. A bug in this library enables attackers to craft a `deflate`-compressed request which will consume significantly more memory during processing than the size of the original request. This may eventually lead to memory exhaustion and the process being killed. The maximum compression ratio achievable with `deflate` is 1032:1, so by limiting the size of bodies passed to gosaml2, limiting the rate and concurrency of calls, and ensuring that lots of memory is available to the process it _may_ be possible to help Go's garbage collector "keep up". Implementors are encouraged not to rely on this. This issue is fixed in version 0.9.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 62% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
gosaml2 · russellhaering
< 0.9.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26483
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-26483
Patch
https://github.com/russellhaering/gosaml2/commit/f9d66040241093e8702649baff50cc70d2c683c0
Release Notes
https://github.com/russellhaering/gosaml2/releases/tag/v0.9.0
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/russellhaering/gosaml2/security/advisories/GHSA-6gc3-crp7-25w5
Third Party Advisory
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1602
