Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to stream corruption when using Server-Sent Events (SSE) with view fragments. Spring Framework 7.0.0 - 7.0.8 Spring Framework 6.2.0 - 6.2.19
End of life: 7/31/2027, Latest version: 7.0.10
End of life: 6/30/2026, Latest version: 6.2.19
End of life: 6/30/2026, Latest version: 6.2.19
End of life: 12/31/2020, Latest version: 5.1.20
End of life: 12/31/2020, Latest version: 5.1.20
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.
Both Spring Security 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.0 and the Spring Framework 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x (as well as other unsupported versions) rely on URL pattern mappings for authorization and for mapping requests to controllers respectively. Differences in the strictness of the pattern matching mechanisms, for example with regards to space trimming in path segments, can lead Spring Security to not recognize certain paths as not protected that are in fact mapped to Spring MVC controllers that should be protected. The problem is compounded by the fact that the Spring Framework provides richer features with regards to pattern matching as well as by the fact that pattern matching in each Spring Security and the Spring Framework can easily be customized creating additional differences.
An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5. Paths provided to the ResourceServlet were not properly sanitized and as a result exposed to directory traversal attacks.
Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.14 and 4.x before 4.1.7 do not properly process inline DTD declarations when DTD is not entirely disabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory errors) via a crafted XML file.
Directory traversal vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Framework 3.0.4 through 3.2.x before 3.2.12, 4.0.x before 4.0.8, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors, related to static resource handling.
Directory traversal vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Framework 3.x before 3.2.9 and 4.0 before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.
A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the Spring Framework when using Spring MVC. From the original advisory:
"When a programmer does not specify the action on the Spring form, Spring automatically populates the action field with the requested uri. An attacker can use this to inject malicious content into the form."
This issue affects versions 3.0.0 to 3.2.7, and versions 4.0.0 to 4.0.1.
(the fix is present in version 3.2.8; this was incorrect in the gopivotal flaw - chazlett)
External References:
http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2014-1904
It was found that the Spring MVC SourceHttpMessageConverter processed user-provided XML, and did not expose any property for disabling entity resolution in the XML. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks on web sites, and read files in the context of the user running the application server. The patch for this flaw disables external entity processing by default, and provides a configuration directive to re-enable it. This flaw is considered to be the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4152.
It was found that the org.spring.web.util.JavaScriptUtils.javaScriptEscape method insufficiently escaped some characters. Applications using this method to escape user-supplied content that will be rendered in HTML 5 documents may expose cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws.