CVE 9.3 CRITICAL

ruby-saml Libxml2 Canonicalization errors can bypass Digest/Signature validation_CVE-2025-66568

9.3 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

The ruby-saml library implements the client side of an SAML authorization. Versions up to and including 1.12.4, are vulnerable to authentication bypass through the libxml2 canonicalization process used by Nokogiri for document transformation, which allows an attacker to execute a Signature Wrapping attack. When libxml2’s canonicalization is invoked on an invalid XML input, it may return an empty string rather than a canonicalized node. ruby-saml then proceeds to compute the DigestValue over this empty string, treating it as if canonicalization succeeded. This issue is fixed in version 1.18.0.

AI Analysis

Authentication bypass via libxml2 canonicalization in ruby-saml library

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-66568
Source GitHub_M
Published Dec 9, 2025 at 02:03

Affected Product

Vendor SAML-Toolkits
Product ruby-saml
Version < 1.18.0
Affected Versions SAML-Toolkits ruby-saml < 1.18.0

CWE Classification

AI Assessment

AI Score 9.3 / 10
AI Severity Critical
Vendor SAML-Toolkits
Product ruby-saml
Version < 1.18.0

References

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