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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