NULL pointer dereference in gosaml2 - CVE-2020-7731

 

NULL pointer dereference in gosaml2 - CVE-2020-7731

Published: September 15, 2020 / Updated: November 13, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU46721
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7731
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

gosaml2
ObjectScale

How to mitigate CVE-2020-7731

Install update from vendor's website.

gosaml2 - update to 0.7.0
ObjectScale - update to 1.4.0

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