goxmldsig vulnerable to crash on nil-pointer dereference caused by sending malformed XML signatures
Date: 2022-10
Affected: go/github.com/russellhaering/gosaml2, go/github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2020-7711
CWE: CWE-476
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

This affects all versions of package github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig prior to 1.1.1. There is a crash on nil-pointer dereference caused by sending malformed XML signatures. This issue is patched in version 1.1.1.


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