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medium 6.8

CVE-2013-6429 json

Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7 , EUVD-2022-3904

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
90.6%
EPSS 90.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-web 3.2.5.RELEASE
  • libspring-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.6.RELEASE-11

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6429

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-6429 updated cvss 5.0

Framework: XML External Entity (XXE) injection flaw

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 activemq Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 jasperreports-server-pro Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 activemq
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0401
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0400

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

90.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-web
<3.2.5.RELEASE
3.2.5.RELEASE

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
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Sources

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