CVE-2026-40998

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.004 · 29 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.35% (29th) EPSS

CVSS 8.2 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:Nsecondary · security@vmware.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.2

v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-611USCWE-611US

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Spring Spring Web Services3.1.0 → 3.1.9enisa_euvdEU
Spring Spring Web Services4.0.0 → 4.0.19enisa_euvdEU
Spring Spring Web Services4.1.0 → 4.1.3.1enisa_euvdEU
Spring Spring Web Services5.0.0 → 5.0.1.1enisa_euvdEU
broadcom spring web services< 3.1.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
broadcom spring web services4.0.0 → 4.0.19nvdUScpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
broadcom spring web services4.1.0 → 4.1.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
broadcom spring web services5.0.0 → 5.0.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:broadcom:spring_web_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.springframework.ws:spring-xml3.1.0 → 3.1.8osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ws/spring-xml
Maven org.springframework.ws:spring-xml4.0.0 → 4.0.18osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ws/spring-xml
Maven org.springframework.ws:spring-xml4.1.0 → 4.1.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ws/spring-xml
Maven org.springframework.ws:spring-xml5.0.0 → 5.0.2osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ws/spring-xml

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-2mpf-m756-hxjmSpring Web Services: Jaxp13 XPath XXE via StreamSource and SAXSource2026-06-11ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-06-11modified 2026-09-04

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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