GHSA-f93f-g33r-8pcp

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Spring Framework

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2014-0225
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

When processing user provided XML documents, the Spring Framework 4.0.0 to 4.0.4, 3.0.0 to 3.2.8, and possibly earlier unsupported versions did not disable by default the resolution of URI references in a DTD declaration. This enabled an XXE attack.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.springframework:spring-webmvcintroduced 4.0.0, fixed 4.0.5
Maven · org.springframework:spring-webmvcintroduced 3.0.0, fixed 3.2.8

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database