GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-j8wc-gxx9-82hx Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Santuario

HIGH Published 2021-09-20 Modified 2021-10-04 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-40690
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.santuario:xmlsec
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200
Reviewed
2021-09-20

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.santuario:xmlsec: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 → fixed in 2.2.3 • Maven org.apache.santuario:xmlsec: < 2.1.7 → fixed in 2.1.7

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • 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"… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References