highCVSS 7.5Vulnerability
CVE-2026-49289
## Summary This library turned out to be vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks using XPath transforms. A mitigation has been put in place to restrict the number of transforms and to restrict transforms to only the transform-algorithms mentioned in the SAML 2.0 Core Specifications (and specifically refuse XPath transforms). ## Impact An attacker is able to send specially crafted messages to any entity relying on SimpleSAMLphp (or directly on this SAML2-library) to be able to perform a Denial-of-Service attack.
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-5cjr-mxj5-wmrx
- summary
- SimpleSAMLphp has Possible DoS via XPath Transform
- severity
- high
- cvss_score
- 7.5
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-49289
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- ghsa_published
- 2026-07-02T20:27:23Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cjr-mxj5-wmrx
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-07-02T20:27:23Z
Related Entities (6)
REPORTED_BY (1)
→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database
VULNERABLE_TO (2)
←[Software]composer/simplesamlphp/saml2
←[Software]composer/simplesamlphp/saml2-legacy
AFFECTS (2)
→[Software]composer/simplesamlphp/saml2
→[Software]composer/simplesamlphp/saml2-legacy
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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