SCA: security update for org.springframework:spring-web (GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414934

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414934

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6429

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6429

BID: 64947

cwe: CWE-352