CVE-2018-6519

Description

From CVE.org

The SAML2 library before 1.10.4, 2.x before 2.3.5, and 3.x before 3.1.1 in SimpleSAMLphp has a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability for fraction-of-seconds data in a timestamp.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

Other

Technical Impact: Unexpected State; Varies by Context

When the regular expression is not correctly specified, data might have a different format or type than the rest of the program expects, producing resultant weaknesses or errors.

Access Control

Technical Impact: Bypass Protection Mechanism

In PHP, regular expression checks can sometimes be bypassed with a null byte, leading to any number of weaknesses.

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