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Red Hat JBoss EAP: (CVE-2021-40690)

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Red Hat JBoss EAP: (CVE-2021-40690)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/19/2021
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/10/2023
Modified
11/08/2023

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)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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