Auth bypass in Eduserv Openathens Service Provider

CVE-2012-5353

Eduserv OpenAthens SP 2.0 for Java allows remote attackers to forge messages and bypass authentication via a SAML assertion that lacks a Signature element, aka a "Signature exclusion attack."

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (81.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-5353: held from 0.022 to 0.022.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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