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CVE-2021-40690

Bypass of the secureValidation property

Published: Sep 19, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-200
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
10.4%
Top 4.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:NA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:NIntegrity
None
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected Products

Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Oracle Communications Messaging ServerOracle Corp.
On-prem
Databases / relational
WebLogic ServerOracle Corp.
On-prem
Databases / cache-message-queue
Oracle FLEXCUBE Private BankingOracle Corp.
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / erp
Oracle Retail Merchandising SystemOracle Corp.
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
oracle corp.commercialUSDatabasesaka oracle
and 34 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3b3f5ba9b0de8c9c125077b71af06026d344a709a8ba67db81ee9faa%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r401ecb7274794f040cd757b259ebe3e8c463ae74f7961209ccad3c59%40%3Cissues.cxf.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
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Timeline

Published
Sep 19, 2021
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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