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 entity resolution, which allows remote attackers to read
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 90.56% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 99.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-01-26 11:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 17:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-11-04
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ef35b14f25ed9562325d86298262d0255025b5840ffddfbca597eb34c28c5353
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com20140114 CVE-2013-6429 Fix for XML External Entity (XXE) injection (CVE-2013-4152) in Spring Framework was incompletehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530770/100/0/threaded
- h20566.www2.hpe.comhttps://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324755
- jira.springsource.orghttps://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel
- www.gopivotal.comhttp://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:0400http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
- www.securityfocus.com64947http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64947
- secunia.com57915http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libspring-java Fixed in 3.0.6.RELEASE-11
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libspring-java Fixed in 3.0.6.RELEASE-11
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libspring-java Fixed in 3.0.6.RELEASE-11
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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