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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-3774 json

Spring Batch XML External Entity Injection (XXE)

published 7y ago modified 2mo ago also GHSA-3wc8-659g-r88q , EUVD-2019-0171

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring Batch versions 3.0.9, 4.0.1, 4.1.0, and older unsupported versions, were susceptible to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) when receiving XML data from untrusted sources.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.batch:spring-batch-core 3.0.10.RELEASE, 4.0.2.RELEASE, 4.1.1.RELEASE
  • Spring Spring Batch 3.0.9.RELEASE, 4.0.1.RELEASE, 4.1.0.RELEASE

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-3774 updated cvss 7.5

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

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 spring-batch-core spring-batch-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

3.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.batch:spring-batch-core
<3.0.10.RELEASE
>=4.0.0.RELEASE, <4.0.2.RELEASE
>=4.1.0.RELEASE, <4.1.1.RELEASE
3.0.10.RELEASE
4.0.2.RELEASE
4.1.1.RELEASE

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Batch

Classification

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

References

Sources

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