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CVE-2013-6429

Framework: XML External Entity (XXE) injection flaw

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 14, 2014

Updated · January 29, 2026

Description

The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1 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, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference