Severity: Important
Vendor: Spring by Pivotal
Versions Affected:
Description:
Spring MVC's SourceHttpMessageConverter also processed user provided XML and
neither disabled XML external entities nor provided an option to disable them.
SourceHttpMessageConverter has been modified to provide an option to control the
processing of XML external entities and that processing is now disabled by
default.
Mitigation:
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Credit:
This issue was identified by the Spring development team.
References:
http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429
https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/2ae6a6a3415eebc57babcb9d3e5505887eda6d8a
http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-4152
History:
2014-Jan-14: Initial vulnerability report published.