Admidio: SAML Response Sent to Unvalidated Assertion Consumer Service URL from AuthnRequest
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-601.
Summary
Admidio is an open-source user management solution. Prior to version 5.0.9, the SAML IdP implementation in Admidio's SSO module uses the AssertionConsumerServiceURL value directly from incoming SAML AuthnRequest messages as the destination for the SAML response, without validating it against the registered ACS URL (smc_acs_url) stored in the database for the corresponding service provider client. An attacker who knows the Entity ID of a registered SP client can craft a SAML AuthnRequest with an arbitrary AssertionConsumerServiceURL, causing the IdP to send the signed SAML response -- containing user identity attributes (login name, email, roles, profile fields) -- to an attacker-controlled URL. This issue has been patched in version 5.0.9.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admidio | admidio | before 5.0.9 | 5.0.9 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | admidio/admidio (Packagist) | before 5.0.9 | 5.0.9 | Patch available | GHSA-p9w9-87c8-m235 |
- admidio VendorAdmidio Affected before 5.0.9 Fixed in 5.0.9 Patch available CNA
- admidio/admidio (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 5.0.9 Fixed in 5.0.9 Patch available GHSA-p9w9-87c8-m235
Remediation
- Fix · CNA admidio (Admidio) Fixed in 5.0.9
- Fix · GHSA-p9w9-87c8-m235 admidio/admidio (Packagist) Fixed in 5.0.9 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-41670
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p9w9-87c8-m235
References
More Admidio vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-25286 Admidio is Missing Authorization and CSRF Protection on Document and Folder Deletion CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-56995 Admidio before 5.0.12 Authentication Bypass via RSS feeds CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-56993 Admidio before 5.0.12 SQL Injection via relation_type_list CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2024-25222 Admidio has Blind SQL Injection in ecard_send.php CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-30186 Admidio: SAML Signature Validation Result Ignored — Forged AuthnRequests and LogoutRequests Processed CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2024-25764 Admidio Vulnerable to RCE via Arbitrary File Upload in Message Attachment CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-41670 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-41670 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p9w9-87c8-m235 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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