UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40690

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40690

    Published: 19 Sept 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-40690
    Aliases:
    USN-5525-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-40690, https://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2021-40690.txt.asc, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.apache.org%3E, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5525-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40690

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml-security-java

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.5.6-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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