Security incident · CVE-2025-48995
SignXML is an implementation of the W3C XML Signature standard in Python.
Published Jun 2, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 2, 2025 · XML-Security
Check if you run it
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-48995. EPSS is 0.23%. Act only if a listed version of XML-Security is installed.
Gaps on this record
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- Medium6.9
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.23%
- Remediation
- Version ranges on file
- Affected products
- vendor XML-Security signxml < 4.0.4
SignXML is an implementation of the W3C XML Signature standard in Python. When verifying signatures with X509 certificate validation turned off and HMAC shared secret set ( ), versions of SignXML prior to 4.0.4 are vulnerable to a potential timing attack. The verifier may leak information about the correct HMAC when comparing it with the user supplied hash, allowing users to reconstruct the correct HMAC for any data.
Are you affected?
Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.
The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.
- vendor XML-Security signxml < 4.0.4< 4.0.4
How to fix CVE-2025-48995
Recommended remediation
Affected version ranges suggest a fixed boundary. Verify against the vendor advisory for your release.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-48995. EPSS is 0.23%. Act only if a listed version of XML-Security is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with XML-Security signxml < 4.0.4 < 4.0.4. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.23%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Jun 2, 2025 · EUVD
Detected
SignXML is an implementation of the W3C XML Signature standard in Python. When verifying signatures with X509 certificate validation turned off and HMAC shared secret set ( ), versions of SignXML prior to 4.0.4 are vulnerable to a potential timing attack. The verifier may leak information about the correct HMAC when comparing it with the user supplied hash, allowing users to reconstruct the correc
Jun 2, 2025 · EUVD
Updated
SignXML is an implementation of the W3C XML Signature standard in Python. When verifying signatures with X509 certificate validation turned off and HMAC shared secret set ( ), versions of SignXML prior to 4.0.4 are vulnerable to a potential timing attack. The verifier may leak information about the correct HMAC when comparing it with the user supplied hash, allowing users to reconstruct the correc
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-48995
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-48995
30-day exploitation probability 0.2%
first.org - EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-16676
SignXML is an implementation of the W3C XML Signature standard in Python. When verifying signatures with X509 certificate validation turned off and HMAC shared secret set ( ), versions of SignXML prior to 4.0.4 are vulnerable to a potential timing attack. The verifier may leak in
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References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.