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CVE-2021-40690
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-09-19T18:15:07.223 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:07:15.457

Summary

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 products

apache — santuario_xml_security_for_java

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