GHSA-gmhf-gg8w-jw42

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gmhf-gg8w-jw42
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-gmhf-gg8w-jw42/GHSA-gmhf-gg8w-jw42.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-gmhf-gg8w-jw42
Aliases
Published
2025-06-05T00:37:19Z
Modified
2025-06-05T01:12:39.036841Z
Severity
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
SignXML's signature verification with HMAC is vulnerable to a timing attack
Details

When verifying signatures with X509 certificate validation turned off and HMAC shared secret set (signxml.XMLVerifier.verify(require_x509=False, hmac_key=...), prior versions of SignXML are vulnerable to a potential timing attack. The verifier may leak information about the correct HMAC when comparing it with the user supplied hash, allowing users to reconstruct the correct HMAC for any data.

Database specific 
{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-05T00:37:19Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-02T17:15:41Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-208"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / signxml

Package

Name
signxml
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Purl
pkg:pypi/signxml

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.4

Affected versions

0.*

0.0.1
0.1.0
0.1.1
0.1.2
0.1.3
0.1.4
0.1.5
0.1.6
0.1.7
0.1.8
0.1.9
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.2
0.2.3
0.2.4
0.2.5
0.2.6
0.2.7
0.2.8
0.2.9
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.3.4
0.3.5
0.3.6
0.3.7
0.3.8
0.3.9
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6
0.5.0
0.6.0

1.*

1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2

2.*

2.0.0
2.1.4
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.6
2.3.0
2.4.0
2.5.2
2.6.0
2.7.0
2.7.1
2.7.2
2.7.3
2.8.0
2.8.1
2.8.2
2.9.0
2.10.0
2.10.1

3.*

3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.1.0
3.1.1
3.2.0
3.2.1
3.2.2

4.*

4.0.0
4.0.1
4.0.2
4.0.3