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Debian DSA-2857-1 : libspring-java - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72412

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered by the Spring development team that the fix for the XML External Entity (XXE) Injection (CVE-2013-4152 ) in the Spring Framework was incomplete.

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.

In addition Jon Passki discovered a possible XSS vulnerability: 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.

Solution

Upgrade the libspring-java packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4152

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libspring-java

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2857

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72412

File Name: debian_DSA-2857.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/10/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-java, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6429, CVE-2013-6430

BID: 64947, 64948

DSA: 2857