CVE-2021-40690

Publication date 19 September 2021

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxml-security-java	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.0.10-2+deb11u1build0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.0.10-2~18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5525-1
Apache XML Security for Java vulnerability
20 July 2022