What is CVE-2013-6429?

CVE-2013-6429 is a vulnerability in Pivotal Software Spring Framework, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Published 2014-01-26.

Is CVE-2013-6429 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CSRF in Pivotal Software Spring Framework

CVE-2013-6429

The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1 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 External Entity (XXE) issue, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4152 and CVE-2013-7315.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2014-01-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.906 (99.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.906 · newest: 0.906 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Pivotal Software Spring Framework
VMware Spring Framework — versions 4.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530770/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay (Third Party Advisory)
jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11078 (Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory)
www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2013-6429 (Third Party Advisory)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0400.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/64947 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secunia.com/advisories/57915 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-6429?: CVE-2013-6429 is a vulnerability in Pivotal Software Spring Framework, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Published 2014-01-26.
Is CVE-2013-6429 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.