PT-2026-48306 · Spring · Spring Rest Docs

Published 2026-06-09 · Updated 2026-06-10 · CVE-2026-40991

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

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.

Fix

XXE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-611

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-40991

Affected Products

Spring Rest Docs

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40991 · Security Note
• https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40991 · Note