CVE-2013-4152: Springsource Spring Framework

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 25.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Spring OXM wrapper in Spring Framework before 3.2.4 and 4.0.0.M1, when using the JAXB marshaller, does not disable entity resolution, which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference in a (1) DOMSource, (2) StAXSource, (3) SAXSource, or (4) StreamSource, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• Springsource Spring Framework: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.0.m1 only; version 3.0.0.m2 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; …
• VMware Spring Framework: up to and including 3.2.3; version 3.0.6 only; version 3.0.7 only; version 3.1.0 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.2 only; …

Published 2014-01-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.