CVE-2025-25291
Severity CVSS v4.0:
CRITICAL
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/03/2025
Last modified:
03/11/2025
Description
ruby-saml provides security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) for Ruby. An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in ruby-saml prior to versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 due to a parser differential. ReXML and Nokogiri parse XML differently; the parsers can generate entirely different document structures from the same XML input. That allows an attacker to be able to execute a Signature Wrapping attack. This issue may lead to authentication bypass. Versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 fix the issue.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
9.30
Severity 4.0
CRITICAL
Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:omniauth:omniauth_saml:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* | 1.10.6 (excluding) | |
| cpe:2.3:a:omniauth:omniauth_saml:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* | 2.0.0 (including) | 2.1.3 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:a:omniauth:omniauth_saml:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* | 2.2.0 (including) | 2.2.3 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:a:onelogin:ruby-saml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.12.4 (excluding) | |
| cpe:2.3:a:onelogin:ruby-saml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.13.0 (including) | 1.18.0 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:a:netapp:storagegrid:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/03/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-9-2-released
- https://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentials
- https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e76c5b36bac40aedbf1ba7ffaaf495be63328cd9
- https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e9c1cdbd0f9afa467b585de279db0cbd0fb8ae97
- https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.12.4
- https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.18.0
- https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-4vc4-m8qh-g8jm
- https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-hw46-3hmr-x9xv
- https://portswigger.net/research/saml-roulette-the-hacker-always-wins
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-329_GHSL-2024-330_ruby-saml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00011.html
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374519
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250314-0010/



