CVE-2014-0054 Incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7315 / CVE-2013-6429 (XXE)
Description
Spring MVC's Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter also processed user provided XML and neither disabled XML external entities nor provided an option to disable them. Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter has been modified to provide an option to control the processing of XML external entities and that processing is now disabled by default.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
- Spring MVC 3.0.0 to 3.2.7
- Spring MVC 4.0.0 to 4.0.1
- Earlier unsupported versions may be affected
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.8 or later
- Users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.2 or later
Credit
This issue was reported to the Spring Framework developers by Spase Markovski.