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

• 3.2.0 to 3.2.3
• 4.0.0.M1-4.0.0.M2 (Spring MVC)
• Earlier unsupported versions may be affected

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.4 or later
• Users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.0.RC1 or later
• To fully mitigate this issue (including CVE-2013-6429 & CVE-2014-0054), users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.8 or later and users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.2 or later.

Credit

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

References

• https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-10806

History

2013-Aug-22: Initial vulnerability…