CVE-2019-12400 Information

Description

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 potential security flaws when validating signed documents etc. The vulnerability affects Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java 2.0.x releases from 2.0.3 and all 2.1.x releases before 2.1.4.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2019-12400.asc?version=1&modificationDate=1566573083000&api=v2 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0804 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0805 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0806 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0811 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8e814b925bf580bc527d96ff51e72ffe5bdeaa4b8bf5b89498cab24c@3Cdev.santuario.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/edaa7edb9c58e5f5bd0c950f2b6232b62b15f5c44ad803e8728308ce@3Cdev.santuario.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r107bffb06a5e27457fe9af7dfe3a233d0d36c6c2f5122f117eb7f626@3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcdc0da94fe21b26493eae47ca987a290bdf90c721a7a42491fdd41d4@3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf82be0a7c98cd3545e20817bb96ed05551ea0020acbaf9a469fef402@3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf958cea96236de8829940109ae07e870aa3d59235345421e4924ff03@3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org3E https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190910-0003/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.5