CVE-2021-40690

CVE-2021-40690: Bypass of the secureValidation property

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Santuario
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published September 19, 2021
Last update August 4, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 19, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated