Critical
Security advisory
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).
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-23365
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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).
osv:CVE-2021-23365
Complete source record
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