Vulnerability GO-2026-6909

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9 hours ago

Nil-pointer panic in validateAssertion and namespace-blind Subject.NameID in github.com/crewjam/saml

Summary

Nil-pointer panic in validateAssertion and namespace-blind Subject.NameID in github.com/crewjam/saml

github.com/crewjam/saml through v0.5.1 contains two vulnerabilities in SAML assertion processing:

ServiceProvider.validateAssertion dereferences assertion.Issuer without a nil check when ExpectedIDPEntityID is non-empty. A signed SAML assertion that omits the optional saml:Issuer element causes a nil-pointer dereference panic after signature verification.
Subject uses the bare XML struct tag xml:"NameID", which matches elements in any XML namespace. When a signed assertion omits saml:NameID and includes a element in a foreign namespace inside saml:Subject, encoding/xml populates Subject.NameID from the foreign element, allowing an authenticated principal to spoof Subject.NameID.Value.