SB2015042117 - Insufficient verification of data authenticity in PicketLink

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-6254)

CWE-ID: CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

CVSSv4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

The vulnerability allows a remote user to affect vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to (1) Service Provider (SP) and (2) Identity Provider (IdP) in PicketLink does not ensure that the Destination attribute in a Response element in a SAML assertion matches the location from which the message was received. A remote user can make unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0846.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0847.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0848.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0849.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194832
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PLINK-680