Critical severity · published Aug 20, 2026
CVE-2026-53424
Missing one-time-use enforcement in Samly allows replay of SAML bearer assertions
9.1
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in dropbox samly allows an attacker to authenticate as the subject of a captured SAML assertion by resubmitting it.
Samly.Helper.decode_idp_auth_resp/3 in lib/samly/helper.ex calls esaml_sp:validate_assertion/2, whose default duplicate detector is a no-op. The /3 arity accepting a DuplicateFun exists in esaml and implements the check, but Samly never calls it and offers no configuration to supply one, so the SAML 2.0 Web Browser SSO Profile requirement that a bearer assertion be used once is unenforced. An attacker holding a valid SAMLResponse obtained from the network, from browser history, or from logs can submit the identical bytes repeatedly until the assertion's NotOnOrAfter passes, each time establishing a session as the assertion's subject.
This issue affects samly: from 0.3.0 onward.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SA
samly · dropbox
0.3.0; 8a5bb1b4a4753d05470da2036323477f63cfdf4c · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53424
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53424
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-53424.html
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-53424
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