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CVE-2018-6519

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6519 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting the SAML2 library in SimpleSAMLphp versions prior to 1.10.4, 2.3.5, and 3.1.1. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service by sending specially crafted timestamp data containing fraction-of-seconds. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.0.0, < 1.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:simplesamlphp:saml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, < 2.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:simplesamlphp:saml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0.0, < 3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:simplesamlphp:saml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: simplesamlphp/saml2Fixed in: 1.10.4
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: simplesamlphp/saml2Fixed in: 2.3.5
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: simplesamlphp/saml2Fixed in: 3.1.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-hhm8-2j4g-mpgghigh

SimpleSAMLphp SAML2 library Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

May 14, 2022

References

simplesamlphp.org / security/201801-01
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4127
Third Party Advisory