CVE-2014-0225
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.24%Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Spring Framework
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/libspring-javafrom 0, < 3.0.6.RELEASE-14
- Maven/org.springframework:spring-webmvc>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0225
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0225
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/44ee51a6c9c3734b3fcf9a20817117e86047d753
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/8e096aeef55287dc829484996c9330cf755891a1
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/c6503ebbf7c9e21ff022c58706dbac5417b2b5eb
- WEBhttps://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-11768
- WEBhttps://pivotal.io/security/cve-2014-0225