CVE-2013-6429
MEDIUMEPSS 100th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
- http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530770/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64947
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324755
- https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel
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