SAML authentication vulnerability due to improper SAML response validation

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-27509

fleetdm/fleet is an open source device management, built on osquery. In vulnerable versions of Fleet, an attacker could craft a specially-formed SAML response to forge authentication assertions, provision a new administrative user account if Just-In-Time (JIT) provisioning is enabled, or create new accounts tied to forged assertions if f MDM enrollment is enabled. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.64.2, 4.63.2, 4.62.4, and 4.58.1.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-52jx-g6m5-h735

### Summary A vulnerability in Fleet’s SAML authentication handling could allow an attacker to forge authentication assertions and gain unauthorized access to Fleet. In certain configurations, this could result in the creation of new user accounts, including administrative accounts. This issue affects Fleet deployments using single sign-on (SSO). ### Impact In vulnerable versions of Fleet, an attacker could craft a specially-formed SAML response to: - Forge authentication assertions, potentially impersonating legitimate users. - If Just-In-Time (JIT) provisioning is enabled, the attacker could provision a new administrative user account. - If MDM enrollment is enabled, certain endpoints could be used to create new accounts tied to forged assertions. This could allow unauthorized access to Fleet, including administrative access, visibility into device data, and modification of configuration. ### Patches This issue is addressed in commit [fc96cc4](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/commit/fc96cc4e91047250afb12f65ad70e90b30a7fb1c) and is available in Fleet version 4.64.2. The following backport versions also address this issue: - 4.63.2 - 4.62.4 - 4.58.1 - 4.53.2 ### Workarounds If an immediate upgrade is not possible, Fleet users should temporarily disable [single-sign-on (SSO)](https://fleetdm.com/docs/deploy/single-sign-on-sso) and use password authentication. ### Credit Thank you @hakivvi, as well as Jeffrey Hofmann and Colby Morgan from the Robinhood Red Team for finding and reporting this vulnerability using our [responsible disclosure process](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/main/SECURITY.md). ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: - Email us at [email protected] - Join #fleet in [osquery Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/osquery/shared_invite/zt-h29zm0gk-s2DBtGUTW4CFel0f0IjTEw)

Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2025-3505

Fleet has SAML authentication vulnerability due to improper SAML response validation in github.com/fleetdm/fleet. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 before v4.53.2, from v4.54.0 before v4.58.1, from v4.62.0 before v4.62.4, from v4.63.0 before v4.63.2, from v4.64.0 before v4.64.2.