vulnerability
Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2021-40690: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Sep 17, 2021 | Sep 19, 2024 | Jul 2, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 17, 2021
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jul 2, 2025
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
red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest
References
- CWE-200
- CVE-2021-40690
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-40690
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-40690
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011190
- URL-https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.apache.org%3E
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4679
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5149
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5150
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5151
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5154
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