Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-9487
XML::Sig versions before 0.71 for Perl allow signature wrapping via duplicate ID.
_get_signed_xml() in lib/XML/Sig.pm, called from verify(), resolves the SignedInfo Reference/@URI to a node with the XPath expression "//*[@ID='$id']" and returns the first node of the resulting node set. A document in which two elements share that ID value is accepted: the digest and signature are checked against whichever element comes first in document order, and the duplicate is not detected.
Such a document verifies successfully while an application that resolves the same ID independently can read the second, attacker supplied element; in a SAML2 context this places the contents of an Assertion under attacker control.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 6.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.1
Products affected by CVE-2026-9487
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cpe:2.3:a:xml::sig_project