CVE-2015-3192

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.14 and 4.x before 4.1.7 do not properly process inline DTD declarations when DTD is not entirely disabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory errors) via a crafted XML file.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
Spring Framework: 3.2.0, 4.1.0
Spring Framework: 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6 (+13)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162015.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162017.html
http://pivotal.io/security/cve-2015-3192
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1592.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1593.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2035.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2036.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90853
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036587
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1218
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1219
https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-13136

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