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SCA: security update for org.apache.santuario:xmlsec (GHSA-4q98-wr72-h35w)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422190

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2019-12400)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4q98-wr72-h35w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422190

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12400

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12400

cwe: CWE-20