SAML Vulnerability VU475445

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction

We are using CA Federation Manager for our SAML based SSO solution, it has been brought to our attention below vulnerabilities around SAML, does these affect CA Single Sign.On?
CVE-2017-11427 - OneLogin’s "python-saml"
CVE-2017-11428 - OneLogin’s "ruby-saml"
CVE-2017-11429 - Clever’s "saml2-js"
CVE-2017-11430 - "OmniAuth-SAML"
CVE-2018-0489 - Shibboleth openSAML C++
CVE-2018-5387 - Wizkunde SAMLBase Regards Akshat

Environment

CA Single Sign-On R12.7

Resolution

CA published an advisory confirming that these vulnerabilities does not affect CA Single Sign-On:
https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/status/announcement-documents/2018/ca---proactive-notification---smplc---advisory---asmplc-100601.html

CA Single Sign-On team has reviewed information related to the SAML federation vulnerability stemming from incorrect XML canonicalization and DOM traversal described here: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/475445.

The results of testing have demonstrated that CA Single Sign-On, and the previously named CA Federation, is not affected by this vulnerability.

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