CVE-2021-40690

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-40690 affects all versions of Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java prior to 2.2.3 and 2.1.7, as well as products from Debian and Oracle. This vulnerability, rated 7.5 HIGH, allows an unauthenticated attacker to extract local XML files by abusing an XPath Transform in a RetrievalMethod element due to incorrect handling of the "secureValidation" property. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 2.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:apache:santuario_xml_security_for_java::::::::
		>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:apache:santuario_xml_security_for_java::::::::
		3.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.4.4:::::::*
		< 8.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomee::::::::
		9.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

7.38%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

93.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0738 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (62)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.apache.santuario:xmlsecFixed in: 2.2.3

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.apache.santuario:xmlsecFixed in: 2.1.7

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Fuse 7.11Fixed in: xmlsec

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7Fixed in: xmlsec

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-0:1.5.5.016-1.redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-artemis-native-1:1.5.5.016-1.redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-xnio-base-0:3.5.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jsoup-0:1.14.2-1.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:1.4.18-14.SP13_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.1.10-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-woodstox-core-0:5.0.3-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-xml-security-0:2.0.10-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-apache-cxf-0:3.3.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-ironjacamar-0:1.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jakarta-el-0:3.0.3-3.redhat_00007.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.43-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-10.Final_redhat_00011.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jsoup-0:1.14.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-resteasy-0:3.11.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:2.0.41-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.10-2.GA_redhat_00003.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-wss4j-0:2.2.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-xml-security-0:2.1.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-apache-cxf-0:3.3.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-ironjacamar-0:1.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jakarta-el-0:3.0.3-3.redhat_00007.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.43-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-10.Final_redhat_00011.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jsoup-0:1.14.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-resteasy-0:3.11.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:2.0.41-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.10-2.GA_redhat_00003.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wss4j-0:2.2.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-xml-security-0:2.1.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-apache-cxf-0:3.3.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-ironjacamar-0:1.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jakarta-el-0:3.0.3-3.redhat_00007.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.43-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-10.Final_redhat_00011.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jsoup-0:1.14.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-resteasy-0:3.11.5-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:2.0.41-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.15-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-wss4j-0:2.2.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-xml-security-0:2.1.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4.10Fixed in: xmlsec

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 for RHEL 7Fixed in: rh-sso7-keycloak-0:15.0.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 for RHEL 8Fixed in: rh-sso7-keycloak-0:15.0.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHAF Camel-K 1.8Fixed in: camel-quarkus-xmlsecurity

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL-8 based Middleware ContainersFixed in: rh-sso-7/sso75-openshift-rhel8:7.5-15

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHINT Camel-Q 2.2.1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHINT Service Registry 2.0.3 GAFixed in: xmlsec

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHSSO 7.5.1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.10-2.GA_redhat_00003.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: EAP 7.3.10 GAFixed in: xmlsec

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat EAP-XP 2 via EAP 7.3.x baseFixed in: xmlsec

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1Fixed in: camel-quarkus-xmlsecurity

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Integration Service RegistryFixed in: xmlsec

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: openshift-logging/elasticsearch6-rhel8

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-j8wc-gxx9-82hxhigh

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Santuario

redhatCVE-2021-40690Moderate

xml-security: XPath Transform abuse allows for information disclosure

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r3b3f5ba9b0de8c9c125077b71af06026d344a709a8ba67db81ee9faa%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r401ecb7274794f040cd757b259ebe3e8c463ae74f7961209ccad3c59%40%3Cissues.cxf.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8848751b6a5dd78cc9e99d627e74fecfaffdfa1bb615dce827aad633%40%3Cdev.santuario.apache.org%3E

Issue TrackingMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8a5c0ce9014bd07303aec1e5eed55951704878016465d3dae00e0c28%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9c100d53c84d54cf71975e3f0cfcc2856a8846554a04c99390156ce4%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/raf352f95c19c0c4051af3180752cb69acbea88d0d066ab176c6170e8%40%3Cuser.poi.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/rbbbac0759b12472abd0c278d32b5e0867bb21934df8e14e5e641597c%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/rbdac116aef912b563da54f4c152222c0754e32fb2f785519ac5e059f%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/re294cfc61f509512874ea514d8d64fd276253d54ac378ffa7a4880c8%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00015.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230818-0002

debian.org / security/2021/dsa-5010

Third Party Advisory

oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

PatchThird Party Advisory

oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

PatchThird Party Advisory