CVE-2025-46404VulnerabilityPublished 5 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-46404: Entr'ouvert Lasso · NULL Pointer Dereference

Affects Entr'ouvert LassoSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.5High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 50% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 5 Nov 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Entr'ouvert Lasso	Affected =2.5.1	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2025-46404, organizations should first monitor Entr'ouvert's official channels for patches or updates addressing this vulnerability and apply them promptly once available. In the interim, implement network-level filtering to detect and block malformed or suspicious SAML responses before they reach the Lasso processing component. Deploy Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) or SAML-aware proxies capable of validating SAML message structure and signatures to prevent malformed inputs. Review and harden SAML response handling configurations to reject unexpected or non-compliant messages. Conduct thorough testing of authentication workflows to identify potential crash triggers. Additionally, implement robust monitoring and alerting for abnormal application crashes or service interruptions related to SAML processing. Consider deploying redundancy or failover mechanisms for authentication services to maintain availability during potential DoS events. Finally, educate security and IT teams about this vulnerability to ensure rapid incident response if exploitation attempts are detected.

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the lasso_provider_verify_saml_signature functionality of Entr'ouvert Lasso 2.5.1. A specially crafted SAML response can lead to a denial of service. An attacker can send a malformed SAML response to trigger this vulnerability.

Impact

The primary impact of CVE-2025-46404 is denial of service, affecting the availability of authentication services that rely on Entr'ouvert Lasso 2.5.1 for SAML signature verification. For European organizations, this could lead to temporary outages of single sign-on systems, identity federation services, or other applications dependent on SAML authentication, resulting in user access disruptions and operational downtime. Critical sectors such as government, finance, healthcare, and telecommunications that utilize SAML for secure federated access could experience significant service interruptions. While confidentiality and integrity are not compromised, the loss of availability can hinder business continuity and user productivity. The ease of exploitation—requiring no authentication or user interaction—means attackers can remotely trigger the DoS condition, potentially as part of a broader attack campaign or to cause targeted disruption. The absence of known exploits in the wild reduces immediate risk but does not preclude future exploitation. Organizations with high dependency on Entr'ouvert Lasso for identity management should prioritize mitigation to avoid service degradation or denial.

CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: MediumCWE Top 25 (2025): #13OWASP Top 10 A10:2025: Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions (opens in a new tab)
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Implementation
For any pointers that could have been modified or provided from a function that can return NULL, check the pointer for NULL before use. When working with a multithreaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the check, and unlock when it has finished.
Requirements
Select a programming language that is not susceptible to these issues.
Implementation
Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is non-null before acting upon it.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Logging (opens in a new tab)
Error Handling (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V11.1.7 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 12 Nov 2025, 15:23 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-476

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