CVE-2013-6429 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-6429

The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

pivotal software

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Affected Software

spring framework
Vulnerable Versions:
3.0.0, 4.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 26th, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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