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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-18092"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-03T13:24:52.137Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-03T20:01:20.742Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-18092"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-18092.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18092"
title: "Net::SAML2 versions before 0.86 for Perl allow SAML authentication bypass via XML signature wrapping because new_from_xml reads assertion identity with document-wide XPath instead of the signed subtree"
summary: "Net::SAML2 versions before 0.86 for Perl allow SAML authentication bypass via XML signature wrapping because new_from_xml reads assertion identity with document-wide XPath instead of the signed subtree.\n\nnew_from_xml reads the NameID, attribute values, SessionIndex, audience and other identity fields with document-wide XPath, such as //saml:Assertion/saml:AttributeStatement/saml:Attribute and //saml:Subject/saml:NameID, which select the first matching element in document order rather than the element covered by the verified signature. handle_response confirms that a signature is present and, when a cacert is configured, that it chains to the CA, but XML::Sig verifies only the element named by the signature's Reference URI, so unsigned sibling assertions in the same document are not covered. An attacker who holds any one IdP-signed assertion can add an unsigned attacker-authored assertion earlier in document order; the signature still verifies and the document-order XPath returns the attacker's NameID and attributes.\n\nAny caller that passes an untrusted Response to new_from_xml can accept identity fields from an assertion the IdP never signed, even when a cacert trust anchor is configured, so a party holding one valid IdP-signed assertion can authenticate as an arbitrary user."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"0.86"}],"vendor":"TIMLEGGE","product":"Net::SAML2","packageName":"Net-SAML2","collectionURL":"https://cpan.org/modules","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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