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CVE-2021-40690

UNKNOWN
Published 2021-09-19T00:00:00
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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.

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GitHub Security Advisories

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✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Santuario

GHSA-j8wc-gxx9-82hx

Advisory Details

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.

Affected Packages

Maven org.apache.santuario:xmlsec
ECOSYSTEM: ≥2.2.0 <2.2.3
Maven org.apache.santuario:xmlsec
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <2.1.7

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 20, 2021, Modified: October 4, 2021

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Published: 2021-09-19T00:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-04T02:51:06.487Z
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