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SCA: security update for passport-wsfed-saml2 (GHSA-ppjq-qxhx-m25f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417638

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Passport-wsfed-saml2 is a ws-federation protocol and SAML2 tokens authentication provider for Passport. In
 versions prior to 4.6.3, a remote attacker may be able to bypass WSFed authentication on a website using
 passport-wsfed-saml2. A successful attack requires that the attacker is in possession of an arbitrary IDP
 signed assertion. Depending on the IDP used, fully unauthenticated attacks (e.g without access to a valid
 user) might also be feasible if generation of a signed message can be triggered. This issue is patched in
 version 4.6.3. Use of SAML2 authentication instead of WSFed is a workaround. (CVE-2022-23505)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ppjq-qxhx-m25f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417638

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23505

cwe: CWE-287