CVE-2021-40690 (GCVE-0-2021-40690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:51
VLAI?
Title
Bypass of the secureValidation property
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.
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No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Santuario Affected: XML Security for Java , < 2.2.3,2.1.7 (custom)
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Credits
An Trinh, Calif.
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