GHSA-xjrf-8x4f-43h4

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Spring Framework

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-6430

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.springframework:spring-web	< 3.2.2.RELEASE	3.2.2.RELEASE

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The JavaScriptUtils.javaScriptEscape method in web/util/JavaScriptUtils.java in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.2 does not properly escape certain characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a (1) line separator or (2) paragraph separator Unicode character or (3) left or (4) right angle bracket.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6430 advisory
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/14617 web
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/7a7df6637478607bef0277bf52a4e0a03e20a248 web
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/9982b4c01a8c7be0961e58b58ed83731c40449ff web
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/f5c9fe69a444607af667911bd4c5074b5b073e7b web
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework package
https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-9983?redirect=false web
https://spring.io/security/cve-2013-6430 web