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CVE-2019-3773
Spring Web Services XML External Entity Injection (XXE)
Critical9.8EPSS 4.1%
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- dell
Description
Spring Web Services, versions 2.4.3, 3.0.4, and older unsupported versions of all three projects, were susceptible to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) when receiving XML data from untrusted sources.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 3.0 – < v3.0.4.RELEASE
- affected 2.4 – < v2.4.3.RELEASE
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework.ws:spring-wsGHSA-8222-6fc8-mhvf (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.springframework.ws:spring-xmlGHSA-8222-6fc8-mhvf (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-3773 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0011/ (opens in a new tab)x_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-8222-6fc8-mhvf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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