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Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework

  • Disclosed: 13.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:21

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.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.springframework:spring-web < 3.2.5.RELEASE 3.2.5.RELEASE

References

CVSS score -
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-352
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.springframework:spring-web
Disclosed
13.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 12:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-g6hf-f9cq-q7w7 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.springframework:spring-web

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (13) in the archive
Total entries
13
First → latest
10.2018 06.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • High 4
  • Medium 8

Disclosures per year

Severity:
  1. Spring Framework URL Parsing with Host Validation
    High · 8.1 CVE-2024-22262 < 5.3.34, >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.19, >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.6 5.3.34, 6.0.19, 6.1.6
  2. Spring Framework URL Parsing with Host Validation Vulnerability
    High · 8.1 CVE-2024-22259 >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.5, >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.18, < 5.3.33 6.1.5, 6.0.18, 5.3.33
  3. Spring Web vulnerable to Open Redirect or Server Side Request Forgery
    High · 8.1 CVE-2024-22243 >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.4, >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.17, >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.32, <= 5.2.25.RELEASE 6.1.4, 6.0.17, 5.3.32
  4. Improper Privilege Management in Spring Framework
    High · 7.8 CVE-2021-22118 >= 5.2.0, < 5.2.15, >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.7 5.2.15, 5.3.7
  5. Pivotal Spring Framework contains unsafe Java deserialization methods
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2016-1000027 < 6.0.0 6.0.0
  6. Cross-Site Request Forgery in Spring Framework this entry
    Medium CVE-2013-6429 < 3.2.5.RELEASE 3.2.5.RELEASE

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