Cross-site request forgery in Spring Framework - CVE-2013-6429
Published: April 24, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU88942
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6429
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework does not disable external entity resolution. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via crafted XML.
Affected software
Spring Framework
MobileFirst Platform
MobileFirst Platform
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6429
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
Spring Framework - update to 3.2.5
MobileFirst Platform - update to 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202301121031
MobileFirst Platform - update to 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202301121031
External References
- https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:worklog-tabpanel
- http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57915
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324755
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64947
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530770/100/0/threaded