CVSS 3.1
8.2 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:NCVE-2026-40998
High (8.2) in broadcom spring web services. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.springframework.ws:spring-xml 4.1.4, 5.0.2.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-611
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- broadcom:spring_web_services
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-2mpf-m756-hxjm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-xml | >=5.0.0 <5.0.2 | 5.0.2 |
| GHSA-2mpf-m756-hxjm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-xml | >=4.1.0 <4.1.4 | 4.1.4 |
| GHSA-2mpf-m756-hxjm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-xml | >=4.0.0 <=4.0.18 | no fix published |
| GHSA-2mpf-m756-hxjm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-xml | >=3.1.0 <=3.1.8 | no fix published |