Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-6429 - XXE vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL

Summary

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.

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-2857.NASL
descriptionIt was discovered by the Spring development team that the fix for the XML External Entity (XXE) Injection (CVE-2013-4152 ) in the Spring Framework was incomplete. Spring MVC
last seen2020-03-17
modified2014-02-10
plugin id72412
published2014-02-10
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72412
titleDebian DSA-2857-1 : libspring-java - several vulnerabilities
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2857. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(72412);
  script_version("1.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6429", "CVE-2013-6430");
  script_bugtraq_id(64947, 64948);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2857");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2857-1 : libspring-java - several vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was discovered by the Spring development team that the fix for the
XML External Entity (XXE) Injection (CVE-2013-4152 ) in the Spring
Framework was incomplete.

Spring MVC's SourceHttpMessageConverter also processed user provided
XML and neither disabled XML external entities nor provided an option
to disable them. SourceHttpMessageConverter has been modified to
provide an option to control the processing of XML external entities
and that processing is now disabled by default.

In addition Jon Passki discovered a possible XSS vulnerability: The
JavaScriptUtils.javaScriptEscape() method did not escape all
characters that are sensitive within either a JS single quoted string,
JS double quoted string, or HTML script data context. In most cases
this will result in an unexploitable parse error but in some cases it
could result in an XSS vulnerability."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4152"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libspring-java"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2857"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the libspring-java packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-java");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/01/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/02/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/02/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-aop-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-beans-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-context-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-context-support-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-core-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-expression-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-instrument-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-jdbc-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-jms-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-orm-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-oxm-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-test-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-transaction-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-web-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-web-portlet-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-web-servlet-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libspring-web-struts-java", reference:"3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2014:0400