GHSA-4q98-wr72-h35wMediumCVSS 5.5

Improper input validation in Apache Santuario XML Security for Java

Published
August 27, 2019
Last Modified
February 1, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

In version 2.0.3 Apache Santuario XML Security for Java, a caching mechanism was introduced to speed up creating new XML documents using a static pool of DocumentBuilders. However, if some untrusted code can register a malicious implementation with the thread context class loader first, then this implementation might be cached and re-used by Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java, leading to potential security flaws when validating signed documents, etc. The vulnerability affects Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java 2.0.x releases from 2.0.3 and all 2.1.x releases before 2.1.4.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.apache.santuario:xmlsec:>= 2.0.3, < 2.1.4

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