CVE-2020-26290

CRITICAL9.3EPSS 0.50%

Critical security issues in XML encoding in github.com/dexidp/dex

Published: 12/20/2021Modified: 3/13/2026

Description

### Impact The following vulnerabilities have been disclosed, which impact users leveraging the SAML connector: Signature Validation Bypass (CVE-2020-15216): https://github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig/security/advisories/GHSA-q547-gmf8-8jr7 `encoding/xml` instabilities: - [Element namespace prefix instability (CVE-2020-29511)](https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-elements.md) - [Attribute namespace prefix instability (CVE-2020-29509)](https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-attributes.md) - [Directive comment instability (CVE-2020-29510)](https://github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator/blob/master/advisories/unstable-directives.md) ### Patches Immediately update to [Dex v2.27.0](https://github.com/dexidp/dex/releases/tag/v2.27.0). ### Workarounds There are no known workarounds.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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