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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2013-6429)

It was discovered by the Spring development team that the fix for the XML External Entity (XXE) Injection (CVE-2013-4152 ) in the Spring Framework was incomplete.

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.

In addition Jon Passki discovered a possible XSS vulnerability: The JavaScriptUtils.javaScriptEscape() method did not escape all characters that are sensitive within either a JS single quoted string, JS double quoted string, or HTML script data context. In most cases this will result in an unexploitable parse error but in some cases it could result in an XSS vulnerability.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
414934	SCA: security update for org.springframework:spring-web (GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
414934	SCA: security update for org.springframework:spring-web (GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
72412	Debian DSA-2857-1 : libspring-java - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2013-6429

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Tenable Plugins

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