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SCA: security update for simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp (GHSA-p9cm-r7jg-8q3g)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431706

Description

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

 - The SimpleSAML_XML_Validator class constructor in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.14.11 might allow remote
 attackers to spoof signatures on SAML 1 responses or possibly cause a denial of service (memory
 consumption) by leveraging improper conversion of return values to boolean. (CVE-2016-9955)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p9cm-r7jg-8q3g

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431706

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9955

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9955

BID: 94946

cwe: CWE-20