PT-2026-48621 · Spring · Spring Web Services

Published 2026-06-11 · Updated 2026-06-11 · CVE-2026-40998

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

8.2

High

Base vector

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

Jaxp13XPathTemplate evaluated XPath expressions for StreamSource and SAXSource inputs using a code path that parsed attacker-controlled XML with the JDK's default DocumentBuilderFactory behavior instead of Spring's hardened parser configuration. Applications that evaluate XPath against untrusted XML payloads could therefore be exposed to XML External Entity (XXE) style attacks.

Affected versions: Spring Web Services 5.0.0 through 5.0.1; 4.1.0 through 4.1.3; 4.0.0 through 4.0.18; 3.1.0 through 3.1.8.

Fix

XXE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-611

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-40998

Affected Products

Spring Web Services

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40998 · Security Note
• https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40998 · Note