CVE-2013-4152
MEDIUMEPSS 98th pctlDescription
The Spring OXM wrapper in Spring Framework before 3.2.4 and 4.0.0.M1, when using the JAXB marshaller, does not disable entity resolution, which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference in a (1) DOMSource, (2) StAXSource, (3) SAXSource, or (4) StreamSource, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0212.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0245.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0254.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Aug/154
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Nov/14
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56247
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2842
- http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-4152
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61951
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/pull/317/files
- https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-10806
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