CVE-2014-1904

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web/servlet/tags/form/FormTag.java in Spring MVC in Spring Framework 3.0.0 before 3.2.8 and 4.0.0 before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the requested URI in a default action.

Affected products

Spring Framework: from 3.0.0 before 3.2.8; from 4.0.0 before 4.0.2 — fixed in 3.2.8, 4.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Spring Framework 3.2.8, 4.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.8.RELEASE/changelog.txt
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/101
http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2014-1904
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531422/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66137
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/741b4b229ae032bd17175b46f98673ce0bd2d485
https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11426
http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.8.RELEASE/changelog.txt
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/101

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