[GHSA-6hvf-xvwm-vrw4] XMLTooling Library Incorrectly Handles Some Exceptions #2509
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The CVE concerns the C++ version of the xmltooling library, not the Java library.
Per the advisory (https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20190311.txt), we can trace back the commit and tickets here:
Where we can see the actual component is "XMLTooling - C++" - not the Java library. Version 3.0.4 does not exist in the Java library - releases stop at 1.4.6: