CVE-2020-7711

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Published 2021-06-23 · Modified 2026-03-14

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

This affects all versions of package github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig. There is a crash on nil-pointer dereference caused by sending malformed XML signatures.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
sid	Fixed	`1.1.1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.1.0-1+deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.1.1-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/russellhaering/gosaml2	`<0.7.0`	`0.7.0`
Go	github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig	`<1.1.1`	`1.1.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.