CVE-2020-26290

Dex is a federated OpenID Connect provider written in Go. In Dex before version 2.27.0 there is a critical set of vulnerabilities which impacts users leveraging the SAML connector. The vulnerabilities enables potential signature bypass due to issues with XML encoding in the underlying Go library. The vulnerabilities have been addressed in version 2.27.0 by using the xml-roundtrip-validator from Mattermost (see related references).
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
9.3 CRITICAL
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
GitHub_MCNA
9.3 CRITICAL
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 64%
VendorProductVersion
linuxfoundationdex
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< 2.27.0
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= Vulnerable software versions
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
https://github.com/dexidp/dex/commit/324b1c886b407594196113a3dbddebe38eecd4e8
https://github.com/dexidp/dex/releases/tag/v2.27.0
https://github.com/dexidp/dex/security/advisories/GHSA-m9hp-7r99-94h5
https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-attributes.md
https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-directives.md
https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-elements.md
https://github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig/security/advisories/GHSA-q547-gmf8-8jr7
https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/
https://github.com/dexidp/dex/commit/324b1c886b407594196113a3dbddebe38eecd4e8
https://github.com/dexidp/dex/releases/tag/v2.27.0
https://github.com/dexidp/dex/security/advisories/GHSA-m9hp-7r99-94h5
https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-attributes.md
https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-directives.md
https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-elements.md
https://github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig/security/advisories/GHSA-q547-gmf8-8jr7
https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/