DoS Attack with XML Input

XML external entities were previously disabled with the publication of http://pivotal.io/security/cve-2013-6429 . If DTD is not entirely disabled, inline DTD declarations can be used to perform Denial of Service attacks known as XML bombs. Such declarations are both well-formed and valid accordin...

Framework: incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7315/CVE-2013-6429

The Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.8 and 4.0.0 before 4.0.2 does not disable external entity resolution, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via crafted XML, aka an XML Extern...