VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2021-40690
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability7.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-09-19
Last modified2026-10-08
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
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.
Weakness classification
- security@apache.org: CWE-200
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-200
Primary references
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org — Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- security@apache.org
- security@apache.org — Third Party Advisory