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.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

• Spring Batch versions 3.0.9, 4.0.1, 4.1.0 and older

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• Upgrade spring-batch jars to 3.0.10, 4.0.2, 4.1.1 or later
• Spring Batch components that exhibited this vulnerability now disable the features as advised in the reference cheat sheet [1] by default, but allow user configuration of the components if the feature can be enabled because XML is received from a trusted source.

References

• https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet

History

2019-01-14: Initial vulnerability report published.