XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in Spring MVC

CVE-2013-6429 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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