CVE-2021-40690
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - security@apache.org
- Published
- 2021-09-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-08
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Affected products
- Cxf (Apache)
- Santuario Xml Security For Java (Apache)
- Tomee (Apache)
- Apache Santuario (Apache Software Foundation)
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Agile Product Lifecycle Management (Oracle)
- Commerce Guided Search (Oracle)
- Commerce Platform (Oracle)
- Communications Diameter Intelligence Hub (Oracle)
- Communications Messaging Server (Oracle)
- Flexcube Private Banking (Oracle)
- Outside In Technology (Oracle)
- Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools (Oracle)
- Retail Bulk Data Integration (Oracle)
- Retail Financial Integration (Oracle)
- Retail Integration Bus (Oracle)
- Retail Merchandising System (Oracle)
- Retail Service Backbone (Oracle)
- Weblogic Server (Oracle)
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.apach…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbdac116aef912b563da54f4c152222c0754e32fb2f785519ac5e059f%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apach…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re294cfc61f509512874ea514d8d64fd276253d54ac378ffa7a4880c8%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apach…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8a5c0ce9014bd07303aec1e5eed55951704878016465d3dae00e0c28%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apach…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9c100d53c84d54cf71975e3f0cfcc2856a8846554a04c99390156ce4%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apach…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3b3f5ba9b0de8c9c125077b71af06026d344a709a8ba67db81ee9faa%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apach…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raf352f95c19c0c4051af3180752cb69acbea88d0d066ab176c6170e8%40%3Cuser.poi.apache.org…
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00015.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r401ecb7274794f040cd757b259ebe3e8c463ae74f7961209ccad3c59%40%3Cissues.cxf.apache.o…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbbbac0759b12472abd0c278d32b5e0867bb21934df8e14e5e641597c%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apach…
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5010
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230818-0002/
