CVE-2025-40934

Name
CVE-2025-40934
Description
XML-Sig versions 0.27 through 0.67 for Perl incorrectly validates XML files if signatures are omitted. An attacker can remove the signature from the XML document to make it pass the verification check. XML-Sig is a Perl module to validate signatures on XML files.  An unsigned XML file should return an error message.  The affected versions return true when attempting to validate an XML file that contains no signatures.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
issue-tracking https://github.com/perl-net-saml2/perl-XML-Sig/issues/63
patch https://github.com/perl-net-saml2/perl-XML-Sig/pull/64

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
xml::sig == 0.27 == None
cpe:2.3:a:xml\:\:sig_project:xml\:\:sig:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* \ >= 0.27 <= 0.67

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
perl-xml-sig edge-community 0.68-r0 Timothy Legge <timlegge@gmail.com> fixed
perl-xml-sig 3.23-community 0.68-r0 Timothy Legge <timlegge@gmail.com> fixed
perl-xml-sig 3.22-community 0.68-r0 Timothy Legge <timlegge@gmail.com> fixed