CVE-2013-4152

Medium

Description

The Spring OXM wrapper in Spring Framework before 3.2.4 and 4.0.0.M1, when using the JAXB marshaller, does not disable entity resolution, which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference in a (1) DOMSource, (2) StAXSource, (3) SAXSource, or (4) StreamSource, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.8
Exploit probability—
ProductSpringsource Spring Framework
PublishedJan 23, 2014
First seenJan 23, 2014

How to fix

Update
  • org.springframework:spring-oxm3.2.4.RELEASE or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
springsource spring_framework3.0.0, 3.0.0.m1, 3.0.0.m2, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5—
vmware spring_frameworkv ≤ 3.2.3, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 4.0.0—
org.springframework:spring-oxmMavenv < 3.2.4.RELEASE3.2.4.RELEASE

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