ruby-saml vulnerable to Remote Denial of Service (DoS) with compressed SAML responses
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.7epss 1.4%
exploitation probability
1.4%top 31% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
ruby-saml provides security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) for Ruby. Prior to versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0, ruby-saml is susceptible to remote Denial of Service (DoS) with compressed SAML responses. ruby-saml uses zlib to decompress SAML responses in case they're compressed. It is possible to bypass the message size check with a compressed assertion since the message size is checked before inflation and not after. This issue may lead to remote Denial of Service (DoS). Versions 1.12.4 and 1.18.0 fix the issue.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Affected products
SAML-Toolkits · ruby-samlReferences
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/03/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-9-2-releasedhttps://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentialshttps://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-hw46-3hmr-x9xvhttps://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/acac9e9cc0b9a507882c614f25d41f8b47be349ahttps://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/commit/e2da4c6dae7dc01a4d9cd221395140a67e2b3eb1https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.12.4https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/releases/tag/v1.18.0https://github.com/SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml/security/advisories/GHSA-92rq-c8cf-prrqhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00011.htmlhttps://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-355_ruby-samlhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250314-0008/