CVE-2021-40690 (GCVE-0-2021-40690)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-19 00:00
Modified
2026-10-08 21:24
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Summary
All versions of Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java prior to 2.2.3 and 2.1.7 are vulnerable to an issue where the "secureValidation" property is not passed correctly when creating a KeyInfo from a KeyInfoReference element. This allows an attacker to abuse an XPath Transform to extract any local .xml files in a RetrievalMethod element.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Santuario |
Version: XML Security for Java < 2.2.3,2.1.7 |
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