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CVE-2021-40690: Bypass of the secureValidation property
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 7.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-09-19 · updated 2026-10-08
- Weakness: CWE-200
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.
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF: 3.4.4
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Santuario: before 2.1.7; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.3 — fixed in 2.1.7, 2.2.3
- Apache TomEE: before 8.0.8 — fixed in 8.0.8
- Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
- Oracle Corporation Oracle Agile PLM: 9.3.6
- Oracle Corporation Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager: 11.3.2
- Oracle Corporation Oracle Commerce Platform: 11.3.2
- Oracle Communications Diameter Intelligence Hub: from 8.0.0 through 8.1.0; from 8.2.0 through 8.2.3
- Oracle Communications Messaging Server: 8.1
- Oracle Corporation FLEXCUBE Private Banking: 12.1.0
- Oracle Corporation Outside In Technology: 8.5.5
- Oracle Corporation PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools: 8.58, 8.59
- Oracle Corporation Retail Bulk Data Integration: 16.0.3
- Oracle Retail Financial Integration: 14.1.3.2, 15.0.3.1, 16.0.3, 19.0.1
- Oracle Corporation Oracle Retail Integration Bus: 14.1.3.2, 15.0.3.1, 16.0.3, 19.0.1
- Oracle Corporation Retail Merchandising System: 16.0.3, 19.0.1
- Oracle Retail Service Backbone: 14.1.3.2, 15.0.3.1, 16.0.3, 19.0.1
- Oracle WebLogic Server: 12.2.1.4.0, 14.1.1.0.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Santuario 2.1.7, 2.2.3; Apache TomEE 8.0.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3b3f5ba9b0de8c9c125077b71af06026d344a709a8ba67db81ee9faa%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r401ecb7274794f040cd757b259ebe3e8c463ae74f7961209ccad3c59%40%3Cissues.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8a5c0ce9014bd07303aec1e5eed55951704878016465d3dae00e0c28%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9c100d53c84d54cf71975e3f0cfcc2856a8846554a04c99390156ce4%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raf352f95c19c0c4051af3180752cb69acbea88d0d066ab176c6170e8%40%3Cuser.poi.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbbbac0759b12472abd0c278d32b5e0867bb21934df8e14e5e641597c%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbdac116aef912b563da54f4c152222c0754e32fb2f785519ac5e059f%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re294cfc61f509512874ea514d8d64fd276253d54ac378ffa7a4880c8%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00015.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230818-0002/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5010
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