I've created an issue for the XMLSec:
http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/CAS-803

Cheers,
Scott


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Marvin Addison <[email protected]>wrote:

> > An enterprise architect has raised licensing concerns to me about
> opensaml-1.1b.jar in CAS. It is unsupported and of unknown icensing.
>
> Neither of these points is correct based on Internet2 documentation.
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OS1Status clearly states
> that 1.1b is the latest and subject to the following support:
>
> With respect to the supported versions, "support" constitutes a
> promise to address security-related bugs by applying patches to the
> subversion branch. It may include additional formal releases to
> incorporate these fixes, but this is NOT guaranteed. Other bug fixes
> and enhancements are likely to be restricted to issues that impact our
> ability to continue to support the 1.3.x branch of the Shibboleth code
> base. Other issues are likely to be ignored.
>
> > (please refer to
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoLicense)
>
> This link states that the latest OpenSAML 1.x versions are Apache
> licensed.  The "few early versions" that link mentions would not
> include the latest 1.1b.
>
> > Another note of interest: CAS includes xmlsec-1.4.0 that has security
> vulnerabilities.  It needs to be upgraded to version 1.4.3
> > (refernce: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/466161
> > http://santuario.apache.org/Java/index.html )
>
> While it's probably wise to upgrade xmlsec, it's important to note
> that CAS does not use XML digital signatures in any way for the SAML
> response it sends to clients, so the vulnerability would not affect
> CAS currently.
>
> M
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