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TI-2015-00244 Aliases CVE-2015-0277GHSA-vhqm-6xhg-59wv

The Service Provider (SP) in PicketLink before 2.7.0 does not ensure that it is a member…

Priority LOW 31CWE-284Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Medium
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Partial · Partial · Partial
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-284.

Summary

The Service Provider (SP) in PicketLink before 2.7.0 does not ensure that it is a member of an Audience element when an AudienceRestriction is specified, which allows remote attackers to log in to other users' accounts via a crafted SAML assertion. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. See CVE-2015-6254 for lack of validation for the Destination attribute in a Response element in a SAML assertion.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.0196 80th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 4 advisories

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:picketlink:picketlink:*:cr5:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 2.6.0VulnerablePicketlink
  • cpe:2.3:a:picketlink:picketlink:*:cr5:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 2.6.0 Vulnerable ·Picketlink

Remediation

Red Hat 4 advisories

  • RHSA-2015:0848 Released 2015-04-16 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.0 update
    • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 Server apache-commons-daemon-eap6-1:1.0.15-8.redhat_1.ep6.el7, apache-commons-io-eap6-2.1.0-1.redhat_4.1.ep6.el7, apache-commons-lang-eap6-2.6.0-1.redhat_4.1.ep6.el7 +47
  • RHSA-2015:0846 Released 2015-04-16 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.0 update
    • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5 Server apache-commons-cli-eap6-1.2.0-1.redhat_8.1.ep6.el5, apache-commons-codec-eap6-1.4.0-4.redhat_4.1.ep6.el5, apache-commons-configuration-eap6-1.6.0-1.redhat_4.2.ep6.el5 +47
  • RHSA-2015:0847 Released 2015-04-16 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.0 update
    • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server apache-commons-cli-eap6-1.2.0-1.redhat_8.1.ep6.el6, apache-commons-codec-eap6-1.4.0-4.redhat_4.1.ep6.el6, apache-commons-configuration-eap6-1.6.0-1.redhat_4.2.ep6.el6 +47
Show 1 more Red Hat advisories
  • RHSA-2015:0849 Released 2015-04-16 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.0 update
    • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4Fixed RHSA-2015:0849
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5 ServerFixed RHSA-2015:0846
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 ServerFixed RHSA-2015:0847
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 ServerFixed RHSA-2015:0848

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2015-0277
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vhqm-6xhg-59wv

References

Advisory 4

Other 2

  • TI-2015-05246 The (1) Service Provider (SP) and (2) Identity Provider (IdP) in PicketLink before 2.7.0… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.0
  • TI-2015-02790 The invokeNextValve function in… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.0

Sources

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