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SCA: security update for simplesamlphp/saml2 (GHSA-g888-g2pp-82hf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432788

Description

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

 - HTTPRedirect.php in the saml2 library in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.15.4 has an incorrect check of return
 values in the signature validation utilities, allowing an attacker to get invalid signatures accepted as
 valid by forcing an error during validation. This occurs because of a dependency on PHP functionality that
 interprets a -1 error code as a true boolean value. (CVE-2018-7711)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g888-g2pp-82hf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432788

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7711

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7711

cwe: CWE-347