Attacking SAML

SAML security is XML signature validation, and XML signatures are notoriously hard to validate correctly. The assertion is signed — but which element is signed, what the XML parser reads, and what the application ultimately trusts can be three entirely different things. That gap is XML Signature Wrapping, and it is the reason SAML breaks far more often than its cryptography suggests.

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