CVE-2020-26290: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

December 28, 2020 (updated December 30, 2020)

Dex is a federated OpenID Connect provider written in Go. In Dex there is a critical set of vulnerabilities which impacts users leveraging the SAML connector. The vulnerabilities enables potential signature bypass due to issues with XML encoding in the underlying Go library. The vulnerabilities have been addressed by using the xml-roundtrip-validator from Mattermost (see related references).

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26290

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