CVE-2014-0054: Springsource Spring Framework

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 91.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.8 and 4.0.0 before 4.0.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4152, CVE-2013-7315, and CVE-2013-6429.

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 3.2.7; 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 2014-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.