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Critical severity · published Jan 18, 2019
CVE-2019-3774
Spring Batch XML External Entity Injection (XXE)
9.8
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Spring Batch versions 3.0.9, 4.0.1, 4.1.0, and older unsupported versions, were susceptible to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) when receiving XML data from untrusted sources.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SB
Spring Batch · Spring
4.0 before 4.0.1.RELEASE; 4.1 before 4.1.0.RELEASE; 3.0 before 3.0.9.RELEASE · source: vendor, NVD
Affected product
SB
Spring Batch
Spring
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3774
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3774
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r01292194daa9ed3117b34dabec0c26929f6db13b9613fc144f720d52%40%3Cissues.servicemix.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0153a08177fcfac7584c7b9ea3027f1e8f18f770126f905b9989190e%40%3Cissues.servicemix.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r08e7ddc354bdcbf95d88399f18b3d804865034f8bc706095e594b29f%40%3Cissues.servicemix.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2349237482bcec43632d9d78d7d2804520d9a82f4d8b1fd96bb616b8%40%3Cissues.servicemix.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r47c7f67a3067ec09262eef0705abc42ea1b646699d9198bcaf8dad02%40%3Cissues.servicemix.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5fbb63e405d2211c16524d33f52e3b122109d3bc88d5f74623fb212d%40%3Ccommits.servicemix.apache.org%3E
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