CVE-2026-40991

Updated on 09 Jun 2026

Severity

5.9 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.9
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

Overview

About vulnerability

When using spring-restdocs-webtestclient or spring-restdocs-restassured to document a remote API accessed over HTTP, an attacker who compromises the API or tricks the user into documenting a malicious API can perform an XXE injection attack when the documentation-generating tests are next executed.

Details

Affected product:
Spring
Affected packages:
Spring Boot @ 2.1.8.RELEASE (+80 more)