CVE-2021-40690
Published: 19 September 2021
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.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 7.5
Status
Package | Release | Status |
---|---|---|
libxml-security-java Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Released
(2.0.10-2~18.04.1)
|
focal |
Released
(2.0.10-2+deb11u1build0.20.04.1)
|
|
hirsute |
Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
|
|
impish |
Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
|
|
jammy |
Not vulnerable
(2.1.7-2)
|
|
kinetic |
Not vulnerable
(2.1.7-2)
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
upstream |
Not vulnerable
(2.2.3)
|
|
xenial |
Needs triage
|
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40690
- https://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2021-40690.txt.asc
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.apache.org%3E
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5525-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian