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Rewterz Threat Advisory – Multiple Apache Jena and HTTP Server Vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

CVE-2021-40690

Apache Santuario XML Security for Java could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper passing of the “secureValidation” property when creating a KeyInfo from a KeyInfoReference element. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to abuse an XPath Transform to extract any local .xml files in a RetrievalMethod element.

CVE-2021-41303

Apache Shiro could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when using with Spring Boot. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the authentication process.

Impact

  • Security Bypass

Affected Vendors

  • Apache

Affected Products

  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.0.0
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.0.3
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.1.0
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.2.0
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.2.1
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.2.2
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.1.1
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.1.2
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.1.3
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.1.4
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.1.5
  • Apache Santuario Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.1.6
  • Apache Shiro 1.7.0
  • Apache Shiro 1.7.1

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Apache Santuario XML Security for Java, available from the Apache Web site.

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q3/177

Upgrade to the latest version of Apache Shiro, available from the Apache Web site.

https://shiro.apache.org/

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