A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Java System Access Manager, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an error when processing XSLT stylesheets embedded inside XSLT Transforms in XML Signatures, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious XML Signature.
Note: This issue only affects the XML signing functionality.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Brad Hill (iSEC Partners).
ChangeLog
2008-06-30 : Initial release
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