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.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2857-1 libspring-java security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7 Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.73336}

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{'score': 0.58208}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:39:01.302Z

Reserved: 2013-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-6429

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-01-26T16:58:10.727

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-6429

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-6429 - Bugzilla

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