CVE-2013-6430 Possible XSS when using Spring MVC
Severity
Low
Vendor
Spring by Pivotal
Versions Affected
- Spring MVC 3.0.0 to 3.2.1
- Earlier unsupported versions may be affected
Description
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.
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.
References
- https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-9983
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/7a7df6637478607bef0277bf52a4e0a03e20a248
History
2014-Jan-14: Initial vulnerability report published.