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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.9 Medium

CVE-2026-40991

XML External Entity (XXE) injection when documenting untrusted XML content

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
vmware

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Spring Spring REST Docs

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.0.0 to < 4.0.0.1affected
  • 3.0.0 to < 3.0.5.1affected
  • 2.0.0.RELEASE to < 2.0.9.RELEASEaffected

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