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CVE-2019-12400 — In version 2

In version 2.0.3 Apache Santuario XML Security for Java, a caching mechanism was introduced to speed up creating new XML documents using a static pool of DocumentBuilders. However, if some untrusted code can register a malicious implementation with the thread context class loader

CVSS
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EPSS
0.59% (top 31.20%)
CWE
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Published
2019-08-23T20:30:33.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T23:17:40.035Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

In version 2.0.3 Apache Santuario XML Security for Java, a caching mechanism was introduced to speed up creating new XML documents using a static pool of DocumentBuilders. However, if some untrusted code can register a malicious implementation with the thread context class loader first, then this implementation might be cached and re-used by Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java, leading to…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
ApacheApache SantuarioXML Security for Java — All 2.0.x releases from 2.0.3, all 2.1.x releases before 2.1.4.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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