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Mark Stosberg

The Flash browser plugin supported interactive apps & games befor the modern web could handle them.

It were a such frequent source of vulnerabilities that browsers eventually banned it.

SAML feels like that, but for authentication. SAMLStorm is the latest in an ongoing history of XML-parsing vulns, and probably not the last.

workos.com/blog/samlstorm

An alternative, OIDC, is based on REST and JSON, avoiding that class of problems.

workos.comSAMLStorm: Critical Authentication Bypass in xml-crypto and Node.js libraries — WorkOSAny service using xml-crypto or a Node.js SAML implementation using it, should update immediately to the latest version. WorkOS customers are safe and were not impacted.