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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-40991 EUVD-2026-35885GHSA-6rpq-6vv2-5222

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

Published Jun 9, 2026 · Updated Jun 27, 2026 · Assigned by 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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Spring Spring REST Docs 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.1, 3.0.0 – < 3.0.5.1, 2.0.0.RELEASE – < 2.0.9.RELEASE 4.0.0.1

Affected packages

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