Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml-security-java (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBXMLSECURITYJAVA-1656189
published21 Mar 2026
disclosed19 Sept 2021

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Introduced: 19 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-40690 (opens in a new tab) CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml-security-java package and not the libxml-security-java package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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 "secureValidation" 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.