SecurityAdvisories

The Shibboleth V2 IdP and SP software have reached End of Life and are no longer supported. This documentation is available for historical purposes only. See the IDP v4 and SP v3 wiki spaces for current documentation on the supported versions.

SecurityAdvisories

This is the advisory page for Identity Provider V2 and Service Provider V2 releases. For newer V3 IdP advisories, refer to the V3 SecurityAdvisories page. For newer V3 SP advisories, refer to the V3 SecurityAdvisories page.

This page provides easier access to the complete history of Security Advisories released for the Shibboleth V2 software products and an "at a glance" table showing you which releases are vulnerable to what kinds of issues. If you're running a particular version, you can use this table to identify the issues that could affect your system and determine how urgent an upgrade is. In addition to the announce mailing list, you can "watch" this page for changes to keep abreast. Pages exist describing briefly how to check the IdP or SP version you have.

As always, sites are advised to use the latest stable release of any Shibboleth product. Refer to the ProductVersioning page for information about our support and versioning policies. The Home page identifies the specific versions recommended at a given point in time

This page only covers advisories affecting the V2 products. Other advisories are not listed here, but you can find the complete set of advisories in this directory.

Obviously not all vulnerabilities are created equal, and the classifications in the matrices are general in nature, and are meant to point you to the relevant advisories to look into.

A particular version will typically be implicated by any advisories noted for it and for any newer versions above it in the tables.

Advisories noted for "All" versions should be reviewed by all deployers for relevancy to their deployment. Typically this indicates that an advisory is at least partly discussing issues that go beyond the scope of what the Shibboleth software can actually remediate and may affect the deployment as a whole. It does not in general refer to unfixed vulnerabilities in the Shibboleth software itself. There are a significant number of these at this point.

Identity Provider Vulnerability Matrix

Version

EOL

User Data Exposure

User Data Accuracy

Session Hijacking

Denial of Service

Remote Exploit

Advisories

Version

EOL

User Data Exposure

User Data Accuracy

Session Hijacking

Denial of Service

Remote Exploit

Advisories

All

Aug 2016

X

X

 

 

 

2014-11-03, 2014-06-08, 2014-04-09, 2011-10-24, 2011-07-18, 2009-06-19

2.4.5

Aug 2016

X

X

 

 

 

 

2.4.4

Aug 2016

X

X

 

 

 

 

2.4.3

Feb 2015

X

X

 

 

 

2015-02-25

2.4.2

Nov 2014

X

X

 

X

 

 

2.4.1

Sep 2014

X

X

 

X

 

2014-09-19

2.4.0

Aug 2014

X

X

 

X

X

2014-08-13

2.3.8

Apr 2013

X

X

 

X

 

2013-04-17, 2013-04-17a

2.3.6 - 2.3.7

Jul 2012

X

X

 

X

 

 

2.3.2 - 2.3.5

Feb 2012

X

X

 

X

 

2012-02-27

2.3.0 - 2.3.1

Jul 2011

X

X

 

X

X

2011-07-25

2.2.1

May 2011

X

X

X

X

X

2011-05-16

2.2.0

Jan 2011

X

X

X

X

X

2011-01-13

2.1.5

Sep 2010

X

X

X

X

X

2009-02-24

2.1.1 - 2.1.4

Nov 2009

X

X

X

X

X

2009-11-04

2.0.0

Dec 2008

X

X

X

X

X

2008-11-03

Service Provider Vulnerability Matrix

Version

EOL

User Data Exposure

Resource Exposure

Session Hijacking

Denial of Service

Remote Exploit

Advisories

Version

EOL

User Data Exposure

Resource Exposure

Session Hijacking

Denial of Service

Remote Exploit

Advisories

All

 

X

X

 

 

X

2018-02-27, 2018-01-23, 2018-01-12, 2016-06-29, 2016-05-04, 2014-06-08, 2014-04-09, 2013-12-02, 2011-10-24

2.6.1

 

X

X

 

 

X

 

2.6.0

Nov 2017

X

X

 

 

X

2017-11-15

2.5.6

Jun 2016

X

X

 

 

X

 

2.5.5

Feb 2016

X

X

 

 

X

 

2.5.4

Jul 2015

X

X

 

X

X

2015-07-21

2.5.3

Mar 2015

X

X

 

X

X

2015-03-19

2.5.2

Dec 2013

X

X

 

X

X

 

2.5.0 - 2.5.1

June 2013

X

X

 

X

 

2013-06-18, 2013-01-10

2.4.3

Nov 2012

X

X

 

X

X

2012-04-19

2.4.0 - 2.4.2

Jul 2011

X

X

 

X

X

2011-07-25, 2011-07-06

2.3.0 - 2.3.1

Dec 2010

X

X

 

X

X

 

2.2.1

Nov 2009

X

X

X

X

X

2009-11-04, 2009-08-26

2.2.0

Aug 2009

X

X

X

X

X

2009-08-17

2.0.0 - 2.1.0

Jun 2009

X

X

X

X

X

2009-06-15

Advisory List

Date

Title

Affects

Severity

CVE

Date

Title

Affects

Severity

CVE

2018-02-27

Shibboleth SP software vulnerable to additional data forgery flaws

SP w/ xmltooling < 1.6.4

critical

CVE-2018-0489

2018-01-23

Implications of ROBOT TLS vulnerability

All

high

 

2018-01-12

Shibboleth SP software vulnerable to forged user attribute data

SP w/ Xerces-C < 3.1.4 AND xmltooling < 1.6.3

critical

CVE-2018-0486

2017-11-15

Dynamic MetadataProvider fails to install security filters

SP < 2.6.1

critical

 

2016-06-29

Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed DTD

SP w/ Xerces-C < 3.1.4

medium

CVE-2016-4463

2016-05-04

Shibboleth SP software <PathRegex> feature implemented incorrectly

SP (all released versions)

high

 

2016-02-25

Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input

SP w/ Xerces-C < 3.1.3

high

CVE-2016-0729

2015-07-21

Shibboleth SP software crashes on well-formed but invalid XML

SP w/ xmltooling < 1.5.5, libsaml < 2.5.5

medium

CVE-2015-2684

2015-03-19

Shibboleth SP software crashes on malformed input messages

SP < 2.5.4, Xerces-C < 3.1.2

medium

CVE-2015-0252

2015-02-25

Identity Provider and OpenSAML-J PKIX Trust Engines Exhibit Critical Flaw In Trusted Names Evaluation

IDP < 2.4.4, OpenSAML-J < 2.6.5

high

 

2014-11-03

Xerces-J XML Parser Vulnerable to Denial of Service

IDP with Xerces endorsed

medium