CVE-2013-6429 Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework
Remote attackers can read arbitrary files and cause denial of service via crafted XML due to external entity resolution in Spring MVC.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-6429?
CVE-2013-6429 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Spring Framework, published on 26 Jan 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6429?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.springframework:spring-web. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.springframework:spring-web Maven | All versions | 3.2.5.RELEASE |
org.springframework:spring-web Maven | All versions | 3.2.5.RELEASE |
Products include Pivotal Software Spring Framework, Vmware Spring Framework.
How do I fix CVE-2013-6429?
Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to 3.2.5.RELEASE or later.
Is CVE-2013-6429 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-6429 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Spring Framework
- CVE-2014-0225 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Spring Framework
- CVE-2016-5007 Spring Security and Spring Framework may not recognize certain paths that should be protected
- CVE-2016-9878 Pivotal Spring Framework Paths provided to the ResourceServlet were not properly sanitized
- CVE-2013-6430 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Spring Framework
- CVE-2015-0201 Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.springframework:spring-core
Sources
Also known as CLSA-2026-1781139197, DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6429, GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7.