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Fix for XML External Entity (XXE) Injection (CVE-2013-7315) in Spring Framework was Incomplete

HIGH | JANUARY 14, 2014 | CVE-2013-6429

Description

Spring MVC's SourceHttpMessageConverter also processed user provided XML and neither disabled XML external entities nor provided an option to disable them. SourceHttpMessageConverter has been modified to provide an option to control the processing of XML external entities and that processing is now disabled by default. It was subsequently discovered that this fix was also incomplete (CVE-2014-0054).

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Framework:

  • 3.2.4 and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
3.2.5OSS

No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Credit

This issue was identified by the Spring development team.

References

History

  • 2014-01-14: Initial vulnerability report published.
  • 2014-06-19: Update to reflect split of CVE-2013-4152 into CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315. Added information on additional vulnerability report that identified that this fix was incomplete.

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