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CVE-2021-40690

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 7.38%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-09-19 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects Apache, Java.

CVE
CVE-2021-40690
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
7.38%
Apache Java

Original NVD 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.

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