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.

Affected versions: Spring REST Docs 4.0.0; 3.0.0 through 3.0.5; 2.0.0.RELEASE through 2.0.8.RELEASE.

Details

Affected product:
Spring
Affected packages:
spring-restdocs-restassured @ 2.0.3.RELEASE (+77 more)