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Description
Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in dropbox samly allows an attacker to authenticate as the subject of a captured SAML assertion by resubmitting it.
Samly.Helper.decode_idp_auth_resp/3 in lib/samly/helper.ex calls esaml_sp:validate_assertion/2, whose default duplicate detector is a no-op. The /3 arity accepting a DuplicateFun exists in esaml and implements the check, but Samly never calls it and offers no configuration to supply one, so the SAML 2.0 Web Browser SSO Profile requirement that a bearer assertion be used once is unenforced. An attacker holding a valid SAMLResponse obtained from the network, from browser history, or from logs can submit the identical bytes repeatedly until the assertion's NotOnOrAfter passes, each time establishing a session as the assertion's subject.
This issue affects samly: from 0.3.0 onward.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-294
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Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-60
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Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / samly Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / dropbox/samly Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / handnot2/samly Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
References
EEF-CVE-2026-53424 ↗
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Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N