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CVE-2013-6429
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…
Medium6.8EPSS 90.6%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 90.6% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework:spring-webGHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7 (opens in a new tab)
References (7)
- 20140114 CVE-2013-6429 Fix for XML External Entity (XXE) injection (CVE-2013-4152) in Spring Framework was incomplete (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324755 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0400 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 64947 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 57915 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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