Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Spring Framework
Date: 2022-05
Affected: maven/org.springframework:spring-webmvc, maven/org.springframework:spring-webmvc
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2014-0225
CWE: CWE-611
CVSS: 8.8 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

When processing user provided XML documents, the Spring Framework 4.0.0 to 4.0.4, 3.0.0 to 3.2.8, and possibly earlier unsupported versions did not disable by default the resolution of URI references in a DTD declaration. This enabled an XXE attack.


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