SimpleSAMLphp changelog

This document lists the changes between versions of SimpleSAMLphp. See the upgrade notes for specific information about upgrading.

Version 2.1.7

Released TBD

Version 2.1.6

Released 2024-12-02

Security

• A security bug was patched in the saml2-library that allowed for XXE during the parsing of SAML2-messages (CVE-2024-52596)

Other fixes

• Added a missing use-statement that would cause a 'class not found' exception.
• Restore the possibility to set trusted.url.domains to null
• Fix typo that caused the metadata file-upload to be hidden (#2271)

adfs

• Fixed metadata download to become a proper xml-file
• Prevent metadata-download from ever being cached

admin

• Fix metadata-viewer to output a valid PHP array

ldap

• Fixed a bug that would throw an unhandled exception to the user if they would enter a non-existing organization and username_organization_method is set to allow or force (v2.3.6).

Version 2.1.6

:warning: IMPORTANT NOTE :warning:

Due to a mistake, this bugfix-release can turn out to become a backwards-incompatibility for those who override the loginuserpass.twig in their custom theme. Please update your theme to reflect the changes in this commit before updating.

Released 30-04-2024

• Fix posting the form to the incorrect endpoint when using an authsource based on UserPassOrgBase (#2022)
• Fix RequestedAuthnContextSelector for case with multiple RACs in request
• Add xml opening-tag to SP-metadata for consistency with IdP-metadata (#2048)
• Fixed a PHP 8.3 compliance issue in the logout handler (#2047)
• Improve parsing of base64-encoded strings
• Autofill username when Entra ID hints it in the HTTP parameters

admin

• Set custom security header to properly display phpinfo-page
• Hide file-upload button for metadata-converter if uploads are disabled at PHP-level

exampleauth

• Fix controller for External-authsource

ldap

• Fix exception being thrown when password is empty

saml2 library

Fixed a bug where base64 encoded strings were not decoded using the strict flag, leading to an incorrect error message.

Version 2.1.5

Released 2024-03-08

• Fix incorrect method call introduced in 2.0.6 (#1996)

Version 2.1.4

Released 2024-02-29

• Fix static call for non-static method in bin/importPdoMetadata.php (#1969)
• Validate AuthState before processing it (#1706)
• Fix possible incompatible dependency-set (#1981)

Version 2.1.3

Released 2024-02-12

• Fix backwards compatibility for mandatory cachedir-setting introduced in 2.1.2

Deprecations:

• The core:StatisticsWithAttribute authproc-filter has been deprecated. It is now available in the 'statistics' module (v1.2+) as 'statistics:StatisticsWithAttribute', while only the 'core:StatisticsWithAttribute' filter will be removed from SimpleSAMLphp in a future release.

Version 2.1.2

Released 2024-02-05

• Restore possibility to use HTTP-Artifact on AuthnRequests (regression from 2.0.4)
• Fixed undefined variable exception when using MS SQL store (#1917 + #1918)
• Fix legacy-endpoints to not send responses twice
• Fix exception when using iframe-logout (#1936)
• Look for the schema files in the right place (#1929)
• Fixed file logging handler to not fail on the first write after file-creation (#1877)
• Fixed a warning in the RequestedAuthnContextSelector

adfs

• Fixed incorrect use of StreamedResponse (v2.1.3)

core

• Fixed a broken template for the WarnShortSSOInterval authproc-filter (#1920)
• Fixed the order of the routes so that the least specific error-controller is hit last (#1923)

ldap

• Restored 1.x functionality to be able to fetch operational attributes (v2.3.0)
• Fixed undesirable side-effect introduced in v2.3.0 (v2.3.1)
• Restore the ability to read attributes using a privileged account (v2.3.2)

saml

• Disable caching for metadata-endpoint when protect.metadata is true (#1926)

saml2 library

• Fix serialization for the NameID element
• Fix inheritance - There is no relation between BaseID and NameID

NOTE: Clear your session store after updating, because old serialized sessions can no longer be unserialized

Version 2.1.1

Released 2023-11-28

• Fix static call for non-static method in bin/initMDSPdo.php (#1892)
• Restore logout-behaviour for IdP's that do not send a saml:NameID in their LogoutRequest (#1894)
• Fix code error in docs (#1895)
• Fixed a TypeError when accessing the module.php endpoint without specifying a module (#1907)
• Fixed the precondition-functionality for more complex authproc-filters (#1905)
• Reverted a case of 'constructor property promotion' in SAMLParser, causing the validators to be empty (#1904)
• Drop ext-intl in favour of a polyfill (#1908)

multiauth

• Fix TypeError due to missing keys in source array (#1900)

Version 2.1.0

Released 2023-10-30

• Functionality that before was provided by the sanitycheck-module is now implicit. The module has been archived and should no longer be used. (#1843)
• Add support for conditional authproc-filters (#1836)
• Add support for TLS configuration for Redis Store (#1828)
• Add support for Metadata Deployment Profile for errorURL (#1841)
• Raised minimum Symfony version to 6.0
• Raise minimum PHP version to 8.0
• Specified the allowed HTTP methods for each route
• Our dependency on composer/composer was dropped in favour of a packaged phar-file (#1857)
• The bin/pwgen.php script was improved to used stronger encryption (#1849)
• Fixed a missing Accept-header for metadata queries (#1865)
• Changed the UNIQUE constraint for the SP LogoutStore database to PRIMARY KEY to prevent confusing warnings in Drupal (#1862)
• Add Accept HTTP headers to MDQ queries (#1865)
• The custom error- and exception handlers were moved to their very own classes (#1858)

Version 2.0.8

Released 2023-11-28

• Fix static call for non-static method in bin/initMDSPdo.php (#1892)
• Restore logout-behaviour for IdP's that do not send a saml:NameID in their LogoutRequest (#1894)
• Fix code error in docs (#1895)
• Fixed a TypeError when accessing the module.php endpoint without specifying a module (#1907)
• Drop ext-intl in favour of a polyfill (#1908)

multiauth

• Fix TypeError due to missing keys in source array (#1900)

Version 2.0.7

Released 2023-10-30

• Fixed a missing Accept-header for metadata queries (#1865)
• Update vulnerable composer (CVE-2023-43655; not affected)
• Fixed a potential XSS-through-DOM (3x; not affected)
• Fixed a warning in the RequestedAuthnContextSelector

Version 2.0.6

Released 2023-09-07

• Fixed a legacy endpoint causing to break iframe-logout (#1846)
• Fixed an incorrect return-type in RunnableResponse
• Fix for admin.protectmetadata=true - it would show a blank page
• Fix default for entity attributes NameFormat in XML metadata to be 'URI'.
• Fix error message when invoking SSO endpoint without the required parameters.
• Security header regression
• Fixed a regression that made it impossible to configure metadata-signing on individual hosted IdP's (#1792)

Version 2.0.5

Released 2023-07-31

• Fixed link pointing to legacy endpoint (#1833)
• Updated German translations (#1814)
• Do not drop UIInfo from SSP array style metadata (#1808)
• Fixed incorrect return types
• Added removeEntry-method to MetadataStorageHandlerPdo (#1823)
• Fixed SLO with signed response (#1812)
• Fixed broken MetaDataStorageHandlerSerialize
• Usernames are now trimmed (#1829)
• Never expose the cron-API if secret is not properly configured (#1831)
• Fixed a bug where IdP-initiated SLO using the HTTP-POST binding wasn't properly dealt with

admin

• Updated French translations (#1824)

cron

• Log a warning if secret is not properly configured (#1831)

metarefresh

• Added support for PDO storage (v0.11.0)

Version 2.0.4

Released 2023-05-12

• The source that was selected by the SourceSelector is now available in the state.
• The zone that was selected by the SourceIPSelector is now available in the state.
• The defaultSource for the SourceIPSelector can now be set to null . If none of the zones are matched, a NotFound exception will be thrown.
• It is now possible to set a default AuthnContext in the RequestedAuthnContextSelector.
• Fixed a bug in MDQ metadata expiration
• Resolved a possible object injection vulnerability in MDQ metadata cache
• Restored the possibility to use HTTP-Artifact binding on AuthnRequests
• Removed unused private method MetaDataStorageSource::getDynamicHostedUrl (leftover from entityid generation)
• Bumped simplesamlphp-assets-base

ldap

• Fixed loading the options-array from configuration (v2.1.6)
• Properly escape user-input in ldap filters (v2.1.7)

saml2

• Fixed a static call to a non-static function that caused a broken artifact binding (v4.6.8)

Version 2.0.3

Released 2023-03-29

• Fix exception when translation-file does not exist
• Correct host in generated URLS for IdPs with 'host' config in admin/federation (#1774, #1781)
• Restore dev-autoloader (#1795)

authyubikey

• The module wasn't fully compatible with SSP 2.0 yet (v2.0.1)

cas

• Fixed a broken controller (simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp-module-cas#6) (v1.1.2)

saml2debug

• Fixed a broken controller (simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp-module-saml2debug#4) (v1.0.5)

Version 2.0.2

Released 2023-03-10

• Fixed the broken 2.0.1 release by restoring an accidentally removed file

Version 2.0.1

Released 2023-03-10

• The language-menu on mobile devices was fixed
• Fix some issues with logout (#1776, #1780, #1785)
• The loginpage_links functionality for authsources was restored and documented (#1770, #1773)
• Several issues regarding the use of the back-button were fixed (#1720)
• Many fixes in documentation
• Fixed config/authsources.php.dist so you can just rename it for new deployments to get you started (#1771)
• Fixed UTF-8 encoding for metadata output
• Fixed incompatibility with SSP 2.0 for the following modules;
  • consent
  • consentadmin
  • consentsimpleadmin
  • exampleattributeserver
  • expirycheck
  • memcachemonitor
  • memcookie
  • metaedit
  • negotiate
  • negotiateext
  • preprodwarning
  • saml2debug
  • sanitycheck
  • sqlauth

authtwitter

• A legacy route was added for backwards compatibility
• Docs have been updated

ldap

• Fixed the possibility to return ALL attributes (simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp-module-ldap#39)
• Restored the possibility to use anonymous bind (simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp-module-ldap#41)

negotiate

• Added support for multi-realm environments

statistics

• Fixed missing script-tag to load jQuery
• Fixed static calls to SSP utilities
• Docs have been updated

Version 2.0.0

Released 2023-02-23

• Many changes, upgrades and improvements since the 1.x series.
• Most notably the new templating system based on Twig, a new localization system based on gettext.
• Most modules have been moved out of the core package but can easily be installed on-demand as required via composer.
• Better conformance by default to the SAML2INT standard.
• Code cleanups, improvements and simplifications.
• Improved test coverage and more use of standard libraries.
• Compatibility with modern versions of PHP.
• Various new features, including:
  • SAML SubjectID and Pairwise ID support
  • Accepting unsolicited responses can be disabled by setting enable_unsolicited to false in the SP authsource.
  • Certificates and private keys can now be retrieved from a database
  • Support for Redis sentinel was added.
• Please read the upgrade notes for 2.0 because this release breaks backwards compatibility in a number of places.