Vulnerability · Published Oct 28, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-27978
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 79% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 20.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Shibboleth Identify Provider 3.x before 3.4.6 has a denial of service flaw. A remote unauthenticated attacker can cause a login flow to trigger Java heap exhaustion due to the creation of objects in the Java Servlet container session.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20191002.txt x_refsource_MISC