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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-3773 json

Spring Web Services XML External Entity Injection (XXE)

published 7y ago modified 2mo ago also GHSA-8222-6fc8-mhvf , EUVD-2019-0179

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring Web Services, versions 2.4.3, 3.0.4, and older unsupported versions of all three projects, were susceptible to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) when receiving XML data from untrusted sources.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.ws:spring-ws 2.4.4, 3.0.6
  • maven org.springframework.ws:spring-xml 2.4.4, 3.0.6
  • Spring Spring Web Services v2.4.3.RELEASE, v3.0.4.RELEASE

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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-2019-3773 updated cvss 7.5

spring-ws: XML External Entity Injection (XXE) when receiving XML data from untrusted sources

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 spring-xml spring-xml, spring-ws-core spring-ws-core
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:5568

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

4.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.ws:spring-ws
<2.4.4
>=3.0.0, <3.0.6
2.4.4
3.0.6
maven org.springframework.ws:spring-xml
<2.4.4
>=3.0.0, <3.0.6
2.4.4
3.0.6

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Web Services

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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