CVE-2013-6429

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2014-01-26

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-352, CWE-611

Affected products

• Spring Framework (Pivotal Software)
• Spring Framework (Vmware)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
• http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530770/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64947
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324755
• https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel