Advisories for Composer/Simplesamlphp/Xml-Common package

2024

SimpleSAMLphp xml-common XXE vulnerability

Summary When loading an (untrusted) XML document, for example the SAMLResponse, it's possible to induce an XXE. $options is defined as: https://github.com/simplesamlphp/xml-common/blob/v1.19.0/src/DOMDocumentFactory.php#L39 including the DTDLoad option, which allows an attacker to read file contents from local file system OR internal network. While there is the NONET option, an attacker can simply bypass if by using PHP filters: php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=http://URL OR FILE From there an attacker can induce network connections and steal …