Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java 2.0.3 and 1.5.8 released

Versions 2.0.3 and 1.5.8 of Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java have been released. Version 2.0.3 contains a critical security advisory (CVE-2014-8152) in relation to the new streaming XML Signature support introduced in version 2.0.0:

For certain XML documents, it is possible to modify the document and the streaming XML Signature verification code will not report an error when trying to validate the signature.

Please note that the "in-memory" (DOM) API for XML Signature is not affected by this issue, nor is the JSR-105 API. Also, web service stacks that use the streaming functionality of Apache Santuario (such as Apache CXF/WSS4J) are also not affected by this vulnerability.

Apart from this issue, version 2.0.3 contains a significant performance improvement, and both releases contain minor bug fixes and dependency upgrades.