CVE-2025-48995CWE-208

SignXML's signature verification with HMAC is vulnerable to a timing attack

Medium · published June 2, 2025

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SignXML is an implementation of the W3C XML Signature standard in Python. When verifying signatures with X509 certificate validation turned off and HMAC shared secret set (`signxml.XMLVerifier.verify(require_x509=False, hmac_key=...`), versions of SignXML prior to 4.0.4 are vulnerable to a potential timing attack. The verifier may leak information about the correct HMAC when comparing it with the user supplied hash, allowing users to reconstruct the correct HMAC for any data.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00229 · 13.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-208 · Observable Timing Discrepancy
Published
2025-06-02T16:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 JUN 16:23Z
    SignXML's signature verification with HMAC is vulnerable to a timing attack
    cvelistv5