CVE-2013-6429 Information

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.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html http://secunia.com/advisories/57915 http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530770/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64947 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324755 https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel