High severity · published Apr 27, 2021
CVE-2021-31826
Shibboleth Service Provider 3.x before 3.2.2 is prone to a NULL pointer dereference flaw involving the session recovery feature
7.5
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Shibboleth Service Provider 3.x before 3.2.2 is prone to a NULL pointer dereference flaw involving the session recovery feature. The flaw is exploitable (for a daemon crash) on systems not using this feature if a crafted cookie is supplied.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SP
Service Provider · Shibboleth
3.0.0 before 3.2.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31826
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31826
Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/987608
git.shibboleth.net
https://git.shibboleth.net/view/?p=cpp-sp.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5a47c3b9378f4c49392dd4d15189b70956f9f2ec
Exploit
https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-927
Vendor Advisory
https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20210426.txt
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4905
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