🛡️ CVE-2015-1796 — shibboleth-identityprovider

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-295 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Improper Certificate Validation in Shibboleth Identity Provider and OpenSAML

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.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-1796 is classified as CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation. A TLS certificate is accepted without proper verification, so a man-in-the-middle can present their own.

Affected software

CVE-2015-1796 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • edu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityprovider (fixed in 2.4.4)
  • org.opensaml:opensaml (fixed in 2.6.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 7 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
shibboleth.net (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-295
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
edu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityprovider 2.4.4
org.opensaml:opensaml 2.6.5

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