CVE-2013-6429 Medium Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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CVE-2013-6429 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - spring-web-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar

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path: /root/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-web/3.1.1.RELEASE/spring-web-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar,2/repository/org/springframework/spring-web/3.1.1.RELEASE/spring-web-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ spring-web-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 23068bfa8fba8e934988efafc64fa2cf0fdb8462

Vulnerability Details

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.

Publish Date: 2014-01-26

URL: CVE-2013-6429

CVSS 2 Score Details (6.8)

Base Score Metrics not available

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429

Release Date: 2017-12-31

Fix Resolution: Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation: Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.5 or later Users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.0 or later (This is also fixed in 4.0.0-RC2 but users are recommended to use 4.0.0 or later) To fully mitigate this issue (including CVE-2014-0054), users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.8 or later and users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.2 or later.

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