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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-6519

The SAML2 library before 1.10.4, 2.x before 2.3.5, and 3.x before 3.1.1 in SimpleSAMLphp has a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability for fraction-of-seconds data in a timestamp.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:23 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-6519

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Feb 2018, 01:29 UTC

The SAML2 library before 1.10.4, 2.x before 2.3.5, and 3.x before 3.1.1 in SimpleSAMLphp has a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability for fraction-of-seconds data in a timestamp.

osv:CVE-2018-6519
Complete source record
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