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CVE-2013-4152

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 25.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-01-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Springsource Spring Framework: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-m1, 3.0.0-m2, 3.0.0-m3, 3.0.0-m4, 3.0.0-rc1 (+9)
• Spring Framework: through 3.2.3; 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3 (+5)

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

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