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CVE-2014-0054

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 91.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.8 and 4.0.0 before 4.0.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4152, CVE-2013-7315, and CVE-2013-6429.

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 (+13)
• Spring Framework: through 3.2.7; 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3 (+8)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66148
• https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-11376
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66148
• https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-11376

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