debian · CVE-2021-40690

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:01:28 GMT

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CVE-2021-40690 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libxml-security-java), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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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