Cross-site request forgery In org.springframework:spring-webmvc

Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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