CVE-2013-4152
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 25.6% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-5203)
- Published
- January 23, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5203 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- springsource / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
- vmware / spring framework
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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61951
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/pull/317/files(Patch)
- https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-10806(Exploit, Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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