CVE-2023-28119
crewjam/saml: Denial Of Service Via Deflate Decompression Bomb
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · March 22, 2023
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
The crewjam/saml go library contains a partial implementation of the SAML standard in golang. Prior to version 0.4.13, the package's use of flate.NewReader does not limit the size of the input. The user can pass more than 1 MB of data in the HTTP request to the processing functions, which will be decompressed server-side using the Deflate algorithm. Therefore, after repeating the same request multiple times, it is possible to achieve a reliable crash since the operating system kills the process. This issue is patched in version 0.4.13.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling