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CVE-2024-45409

Exploitation: none CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL

CVSS base score: 10.0 (Critical) vendor CNA · v3.1

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Vendor: SAML-Toolkits   Product: ruby-saml

Description

The Ruby SAML library is for implementing the client side of a SAML authorization. Ruby-SAML in <= 12.2 and 1.13.0 <= 1.16.0 does not properly verify the signature of the SAML Response. An unauthenticated attacker with access to any signed saml document (by the IdP) can thus forge a SAML Response/Assertion with arbitrary contents. This would allow the attacker to log in as arbitrary user within the vulnerable system. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.0 and 1.12.3.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 118 points from 2024-09-14, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 73.5% on 2025-03-29.

Published Applicability

OSV.dev (incl. GHSA) 12 affected · 10 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (CNA container) 2 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (ADP/Vulnrichment) 3 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Exploit / Pen Test
Network IDS/IPS
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

Distribution Status

Debian · ruby-saml bookworm 1.13.0-1+deb12u1 scope: local

Where the distribution has shipped a fix, and in which version. Green means the release has resolved it, amber that it is still open. Data from the Debian Security Tracker, used under Debian's MIT / GPLv2+ terms. Debian is upstream of several other distributions, so a fix here often precedes theirs.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

none
yes
total
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10.0 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE-347 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
2024-09-10

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA Vulnrichment 2024-09-10 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2024-09-19 2024-101: Critical SAML Authentication Bypass in Gitlab CERT-EU

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References