USN-3520-1

It was discovered that PySAML2 incorrectly accepted any password when run with python optimizations enabled. An attacker could use this issue to authenticate as any user without a valid password.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / python-pysaml2

Package

Name: python-pysaml2
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python-pysaml2@3.0.0-3ubuntu1.16.04.3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.0.0-3ubuntu1.16.04.3

Affected versions

2.*

2.4.0-0ubuntu2

3.*

3.0.0-3ubuntu1

3.0.0-3ubuntu1.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.0.0-3ubuntu1.16.04.3",
            "binary_name": "python-pysaml2"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.0.0-3ubuntu1.16.04.3",
            "binary_name": "python3-pysaml2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2017-1000433"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}