CVE-2013-6429

Spring Framework < 3.2.5 - XML External Entity Injection and Cross-Site Request Forgery via Unsafe XML Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1 does not disable external entity resolution, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via crafted XML, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530770/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64947
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/57915

Scores

EPSS 0.3872
EPSS Percentile 97.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-352 CWE-611
Status published
Products (3)
org.springframework/spring-web 0 - 3.2.5.RELEASEMaven
pivotal_software/spring_framework 3.0.0 - 3.2.4
vmware/spring_framework 4.0.0 milestone1 (3 CPE variants)
Published Jan 26, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026