The ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticator does not check the password length. If the directory allows anonymous binds then it may incorrectly authenticate a user who supplies an empty password.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
Spring Security 3.2.0 to 3.2.1
Spring Security 3.1.0 to 3.1.5
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Users of 3.2.x should upgrade to 3.2.2 or later
Users of 3.1.x should upgrade to 3.1.6 or later
Credit
This issue was identified by the Spring Development team.
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.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
Spring MVC 3.0.0 to 3.2.7
Spring MVC 4.0.0 to 4.0.1
Earlier unsupported versions may be affected
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.8 or later
Users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.2 or later
Credit
This issue was discovered and reported responsibly to the Pivotal security team by Paul Wowk of CAaNES LLC.
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. It was subsequently discovered that this fix was also incomplete (CVE-2014-0054).
Affected Spring Products and Versions
Spring MVC 3.0.0 to 3.2.4
Spring MVC 4.0.0.M1-4.0.0.RC1
Earlier unsupported versions may be affected
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.5 or later
Users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.0 or later (This is also fixed in 4.0.0-RC2 but users are recommended to use 4.0.0 or later)
To fully mitigate this issue (including CVE-2014-0054), users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.8 or later and users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.2 or later.
Credit
This issue was identified by the Spring development team.
2014-Jun-19: Update to reflect split of CVE-2013-4152 into CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315. Added information on additional vulnerability report that identified that this fix was incomplete.
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.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
Spring MVC 3.0.0 to 3.2.1
Earlier unsupported versions may be affected
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.2 or later
Credit
This issue was originally reported to the Spring Framework developers by Jon Passki and the security implications brough to the attention of the Pivotal security team by Arun Neelicattu.
The Spring OXM wrapper did not expose any property for disabling entity resolution when using the JAXB unmarshaller. There are four possible source implementations passed to the unmarshaller: DOMSource, StAXSource, SAXSource and StreamSource.
For a DOMSource, the XML has already been parsed by user code and that code is responsible for protecting against XXE.
For a StAXSource, the XMLStreamReader has already been created by user code and that code is responsible for protecting against XXE.
For SAXSource and StreamSource instances, Spring processed external entities by default thereby creating this vulnerability.
The issue was resolved by disabling external entity processing by default and adding an option to enable it for those users that need to use this feature when processing XML from a trusted source.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
3.0.0 to 3.2.3
4.0.0.M1
Earlier unsupported versions may be affected
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.4 or later
Users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.0.M2 or later
Credit
These issues were identified by Alvaro Munoz of the HP Enterprise Security Team.
It was identified that Spring MVC processed user provided XML with JAXB in combination with a StAX XMLInputFactory without disabling external entity resolution. External entity resolution has been disabled in this case. It was subsequently discovered that this fix was incomplete (CVE-2013-6429, CVE-2014-0054).
Affected Spring Products and Versions
3.2.0 to 3.2.3
4.0.0.M1-4.0.0.M2 (Spring MVC)
Earlier unsupported versions may be affected
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.4 or later
Users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.0.RC1 or later
To fully mitigate this issue (including CVE-2013-6429 & CVE-2014-0054), users of 3.x should upgrade to 3.2.8 or later and users of 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.2 or later.
Credit
These issues were identified by Alvaro Munoz of the HP Enterprise Security Team.
