Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact vulnerable to security bypass due to Apache Santuario XML Security (CVE-2021-40690)

Summary

Apache Santuario XML Security is shipoped as a component of IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact. Information about security vulnerabilitiy affecting Apache Santuario XML Security has been published in a security bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-40690
**DESCRIPTION:**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.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/209586 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None