CVE-2026-40998
Essential information
- Published
- 11/06/2026 09:16
- Modified
- 11/06/2026 15:21
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 8.2 HIGH (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-611
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N—
CVSS metrics
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- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
- Exploit code maturity
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (S)
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Description
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.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| spring / spring web services | cpe:2.3:a:spring:spring_web_services:3.1.0-3.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| spring / spring web services | cpe:2.3:a:spring:spring_web_services:4.0.0-4.0.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| spring / spring web services | cpe:2.3:a:spring:spring_web_services:4.1.0-4.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| spring / spring web services | cpe:2.3:a:spring:spring_web_services:5.0.0-5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |