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Ubuntu: USN-4774-1 (CVE-2014-0225): Spring Framework vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 25, 2017
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 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.

Solutions

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