CVE-2021-40690CWE-200

CVE-2021-40690: vulnerability in Apache Santuario

Bypass of the secureValidation property

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 7.4%
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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