CVE-2015-3192 Pivotal Spring Framework DoS Attack with XML Input

What is CVE-2015-3192?

CVE-2015-3192 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Jul 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.14 and 4.x before 4.1.7 do not properly process inline DTD declarations when DTD is not entirely disabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory errors) via a crafted XML file.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3192?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.springframework:spring-web. It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Pivotal Software Spring Framework, Vmware Spring Framework.

How do I fix CVE-2015-3192?

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to a fixed version for your release line: 3.2.14, 4.1.7 or 5.0.0.RC3.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-3192 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3192 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLSA-2026-1778546716, DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3192, GHSA-6v7w-535j-rq5m, MGASA-2015-0294, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3192.