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Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 27, 2024

Package

maven org.springframework:spring-web (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 3.2.4.RELEASE

Patched versions

3.2.5.RELEASE

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 26, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jul 7, 2022
Last updated Feb 27, 2024

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2013-6429

GHSA ID

GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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