SAML Security Cheat Sheet — Validate Message Confidentiality and Integrity

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). TLS 1.2 is the most common solution to guarantee message confidentiality and integrity at the transport layer. Refer to SAML Security (section 4.2.1) for additional information. This step will help counter the following attacks Eavesdropping 7.1.1.1 Theft of User Authentication Information 7.1.1.2 Theft of the Bearer Token 7.1.1.3 Message Deletion 7.1.1.6 Message Modification 7.1.1.7 Man-in-the-middle 7.1.1.8 A digitally signed message with a certified key is the most common solution to guarantee message integrity and authentication. Refer to SAML Security (section 4.3) for additional information. This step will help counter the following attacks Man-in-the-middle 6.4.2 Forged Assertion 6.4.3 Message Modification 7.1.1.7 Assertions may be encrypted via XMLEnc to prevent disclosure of sensitive attributes post transportation. Refer to SAML Security (section 4.2.2) for additional information. This step will help counter the following attacks Theft of User Authentication Information 7.1.1.2 Attribution: Adapted from OWASP Cheat Sheet Series under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.