CVE-2021-39171CWE-400

Unlimited transforms allowed for signed nodes

Medium · published August 27, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Passport-SAML is a SAML 2.0 authentication provider for Passport, the Node.js authentication library. Prior to version 3.1.0, a malicious SAML payload can require transforms that consume significant system resources to process, thereby resulting in reduced or denied service. This would be an effective way to perform a denial-of-service attack. This has been resolved in version 3.1.0. The resolution is to limit the number of allowable transforms to 2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01323 · 70.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2021-08-27T22:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 AUG 22:05Z
    Unlimited transforms allowed for signed nodes
    cvelistv5