CVE-2013-7315: Springsource Spring Framework

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.4 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.M2 does not disable external entity resolution for the StAX XMLInputFactory, which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via crafted XML with JAXB, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4152. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2013-4152 due to different affected versions.

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 2026-06-17.