Cross-site request forgery in Spring Framework - CVE-2014-0054
Published: April 24, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU88957
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0054
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 Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework does not disable external entity resolution. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.
Affected software
Spring Framework
MobileFirst Platform
MobileFirst Platform
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0054
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
Spring Framework - addressed in versions 3.2.8, 4.0.2
MobileFirst Platform - update to 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202301121031
MobileFirst Platform - update to 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202301121031