CVE-2013-6429: Pivotal Software Spring Framework

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 90.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Pivotal Software Spring Framework: from 3.0.0, up to and including 3.2.4
• VMware Spring Framework: version 4.0.0 only

Published 2014-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.