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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-23365

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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CVE-2021-23365
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31 Oct 2026, 11:40 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-23365

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Apr 2021, 10:15 UTC

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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