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SCA: security update for edu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityprovider, org.opensaml:opensaml (GHSA-78fq-w796-q537)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411938

Description

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

 - 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.
 (CVE-2015-1796)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-78fq-w796-q537

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411938

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1796

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1796

BID: 75370

cwe: CWE-295