CVE-2013-6429

medium
Published 2014-01-26 · Modified 2024-12-04
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6429

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.0.6.RELEASE-11
debian debianbullseyefixed3.0.6.RELEASE-11
debian debianforkyfixed3.0.6.RELEASE-11
debian debiansidfixed3.0.6.RELEASE-11
debian debiantrixiefixed3.0.6.RELEASE-11

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.springframework:spring-web<3.2.5.RELEASE3.2.5.RELEASE

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
pivotal_softwarespring_framework{"startIncluding":"3.0.0","endIncluding":"3.2.4"}
vmwarespring_framework4.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-352 CWE-611

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.