Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Tyk Identity Broker via Go XML Parser

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Tyk Identity Broker via Go XML Parser

CVE-2021-23365 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

The package github.com/tyktechnologies/tyk-identity-broker before 1.1.1 are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass via the Go XML parser which can cause SAML authentication bypass. This is because the XML parser doesn’t guarantee integrity in the XML round-trip (encoding/decoding XML data).

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