CVE-2025-25292
CRITICAL EPSS 99.1%
Published Mar 12, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
9.3 CVSS 4.0
Published Mar 12, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago
Description
ruby-saml provides security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) for Ruby. An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in ruby-saml prior to versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 due to a parser differential. ReXML and Nokogiri parse XML differently, the parsers can generate entirely different document structures from the same XML input. That allows an attacker to be able to execute a Signature Wrapping attack. This issue may lead to authentication bypass. Versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 contain a patch for the issue.
CVSS Details
Base Score
Exploitability
Impact
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope X
Threat Intelligence
EPSS Exploit Probability
99.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
Patch Available
Weaknesses 2
CWE-347
CWE-436
Affected Products 6
References 13
- about.gitlab.com https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/03/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-9-2-released
- github.blog https://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentials
- github.com https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e76c5b36bac40aedbf1ba7ffaaf495be63328cd9
- github.com https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e9c1cdbd0f9afa467b585de279db0cbd0fb8ae97
- github.com https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.12.4
- github.com https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.18.0
- github.com https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-754f-8gm6-c4r2
- github.com https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-hw46-3hmr-x9xv
- lists.debian.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00011.html
- news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374519
- portswigger.net https://portswigger.net/research/saml-roulette-the-hacker-always-wins
- security.netapp.com https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250314-0009/
- securitylab.github.com https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-329_GHSL-2024-330_ruby-saml
Remediation
- about.gitlab.com https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/03/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-9-2-released
- github.com https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e76c5b36bac40aedbf1ba7ffaaf495be63328cd9
- github.com https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e9c1cdbd0f9afa467b585de279db0cbd0fb8ae97