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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-3772 json

Spring Integration XML External Entity Injection (XXE)

published 2019-01-18 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-wr5r-m8pc-85j9 , EUVD-2019-0197

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring Integration (spring-integration-xml and spring-integration-ws modules), versions 4.3.18, 5.0.10, 5.1.1, and older unsupported versions, were susceptible to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) when receiving XML data from untrusted sources.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-xml 4.3.19, 5.0.11, 5.1.2
  • maven org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-ws 4.3.19, 5.0.11, 5.1.2
  • Spring Spring Integration v4.3.18.RELEASE, v5.0.10.RELEASE, v5.1.1.RELEASE

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-3772 updated cvss 7.5

spring-integration: XML External Entity Injection (XXE) when receiving XML data from untrusted sources

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 spring-integration-ws spring-integration-ws, spring-integration-xml spring-integration-xml
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-xml
<4.3.19
>=5.0.0, <5.0.11
>=5.1.0, <5.1.2
4.3.19
5.0.11
5.1.2
maven org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-ws
<4.3.19
>=5.0.0, <5.0.11
>=5.1.0, <5.1.2
4.3.19
5.0.11
5.1.2

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Integration

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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