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XML External Entity (XXE) injection in Spring Framework

HIGH | AUGUST 22, 2013 | CVE-2013-7315

Description

It was identified that Spring MVC processed user provided XML with JAXB in combination with a StAX XMLInputFactory without disabling external entity resolution. External entity resolution has been disabled in this case. It was subsequently discovered that this fix was incomplete (CVE-2013-6429, CVE-2014-0054).

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Framework:

  • 3.2.3 and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
3.2.4OSS

No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Credit

These issues were identified by Alvaro Munoz of the HP Enterprise Security Team.

References

History

  • 2013-08-22: Initial vulnerability report published.
  • 2014-06-19: Created new vulnerability report for CVE-2013-7315 that was split off from the original vulnerability. Added information on additional vulnerability reports that identified that this fix was incomplete.

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