File Coverage

blib/lib/Net/SAML2/XML/Util.pm

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statement	20	20	100.0
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subroutine	6	6	100.0
pod	1	1	100.0
total	27	27	100.0

use strict;
use warnings;
package Net::SAML2::XML::Util;
our $VERSION = '0.72'; # TRIAL VERSION

use XML::LibXML;

# use 'our' on v5.6.0
use vars qw($VERSION @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $DEBUG);

$DEBUG = 0;

# We are exporting functions
use base qw/Exporter/;

# Export list - to allow fine tuning of export table
@EXPORT_OK = qw( no_comments );

# ABSTRACT: XML Util class



sub no_comments {
    my $xml = shift;

    # Remove comments from XML to mitigate XML comment auth bypass
    my $dom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(
        string          => $xml,
        no_network      => 1,
        load_ext_dtd    => 0,
        expand_entities => 0
    );

    for my $comment_node ($dom->findnodes('//comment()')) {
        $comment_node->parentNode->removeChild($comment_node);
    }

    return $dom;
}

1;

__END__

=pod

=encoding UTF-8

=head1 NAME

Net::SAML2::XML::Util - XML Util class

=head1 VERSION

version 0.72

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  my $xml = no_comments($xml);

=head1 NAME

Net::SAML2::XML::Util - XML Util class.

=head1 METHODS

=head2 no_comments( $xml )

Returns the XML passed as plain XML with the comments removed

This is to remediate CVE-2017-11427 XML Comments can allow for
authentication bypass in SAML2 implementations

=head1 AUTHORS

=over 4

=item *

Chris Andrews  <[e-mail]>

=item *

Timothy Legge <[e-mail]>

=back

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2023 by Venda Ltd, see the CONTRIBUTORS file for others.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

=cut