CVE-2025-46573

Description

passport-wsfed-saml2 provides passport strategy for both WS-fed and SAML2 protocol. A vulnerability present starting in version 3.0.5 up to and including version 4.6.3 allows an attacker to impersonate any user during SAML authentication by tampering with a valid SAML response. This can be done by adding attributes to the response. Users are affected specifically when the service provider is using `passport-wsfed-saml2` and a valid SAML Response signed by the Identity Provider can be obtained. Version 4.6.4 contains a fix for the vulnerability.

Reserved 2025-04-24 | Published 2025-05-06 | Updated 2025-05-07 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Product status

>= 3.0.5, < 4.6.4
affected

References

github.com/...-saml2/security/advisories/GHSA-8gqj-226h-gm8r

github.com/...ommit/e5cf3cc2a53748207f7a81bfba9195c8efa94181

cve.org (CVE-2025-46573)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-46573)

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