CVE-2013-6429

mediumpriority · attend · 59EPSS 0.906 · 100 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
90.6% (100th) EPSS
CVSS 6.8 · medium
Is it mine?
4 products
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Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1 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, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315.

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6.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4
v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (4)

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advisories (1)

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  • GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS

    The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1 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, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315.

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published 2014-01-26modified 2026-06-17
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