---
cve: "CVE-2021-40690"
severity: "LOW"
cvss: 3.1
epss: "7.4%"
vendor: "Apache Software Foundation"
kev: false
exploited: false
published: "2021-09-19 18:15:07"
tags: [cve, security, low]
source: tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier
exported: "2026-09-10T12:23:49+02:00"
---

# CVE-2021-40690

> 3.1 LOW

## Beschreibung

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.

## Patch verfügbar (OSV)

- b9cc7320000478690287c5e154b728af34934b99 (Commit)
- d10ce1ab06cb428d5bbff3d42b1d9bcb8580b6e2 (Commit)

## Referenzen

- <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.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.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/r3b3f5ba9b0de8c9c125077b71af06026d344a709a8ba67db81ee9faa%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E>
- <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raf352f95c19c0c4051af3180752cb69acbea88d0d066ab176c6170e8%40%3Cuser.poi.apache.org%3E>
- <https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00015.html>
- <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r401ecb7274794f040cd757b259ebe3e8c463ae74f7961209ccad3c59%40%3Cissues.cxf.apache.org%3E>
- <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbbbac0759b12472abd0c278d32b5e0867bb21934df8e14e5e641597c%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E>
- <https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5010>
- <https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html>
- <https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html>
- <https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230818-0002/>

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_Exportiert aus dem [tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier](https://tsecurity.de/cve?cve=CVE-2021-40690) · Datenquellen: EUVD (ENISA), NVD, OSV, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB, BSI BITS_