WebLogic Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2021-40690 - Vulnerability Database

WebLogic Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2021-40690

High
Reference: CVE-2021-40690
Title: WebLogic Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Overview:

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 quotsecureValidationquot 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.