CVE-2015-1796

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-254 Security Features

Publication date:

08/07/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The PKIX trust engines in Shibboleth Identity Provider before 2.4.4 and OpenSAML Java (OpenSAML-J) before 2.6.5 trust candidate X.509 credentials when no trusted names are available for the entityID, which allows remote attackers to impersonate an entity via a certificate issued by a shibmd:KeyAuthority trust anchor.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:shibboleth:identity_provider::::::::		2.4.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:shibboleth:opensaml_java::::::::		2.6.4 (including)

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CVE-2015-1796

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools