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Debian: CVE-2021-40690: libxml-security-java -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-40690: libxml-security-java -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/19/2021
Created
09/30/2021
Added
09/29/2021
Modified
11/26/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libxml-security-java

References

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