{"id":"CVE-2014-0054","published":"2014-04-17T14:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-06T09:05:38Z","title":"The Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.8 and 4.0.0 before 4.0.2 does…","vendor":null,"product":null,"tier":"core","eol":null,"description":{"text":"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.","provenance":"source","from":"CVE.org"},"summary":{"text":"The Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC, part of the Spring Framework before 3.2.8 and 4.0.0 before 4.0.2, fails to disable external entity resolution when parsing XML. 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