K000163050: Spring REST Docs vulnerability CVE-2026-40991

Security Advisory 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...

XXE Injection

Spring REST Docs is vulnerable to XML External Entity XXE Injection. The vulnerability is due to unsafe processing of XML content when documenting remote APIs, where a compromised or malicious API can supply crafted XML containing external entities. When documentation-generating tests are execute...

EUVD-2026-35885

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 execute...

Spring REST Docs REST Assured & WebFlux are vulnerable to Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

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 execute...

GHSA-6RPQ-6VV2-5222 Spring REST Docs REST Assured & WebFlux are vulnerable to Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

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 execute...

CVE-2026-40991

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 execute...

CVE-2026-40991: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

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 execute...

VMware Spring REST Docs 代码问题漏洞

VMware Spring REST Docs is a REST API documentation generation framework developed by VMware, Inc. There are code-related vulnerabilities in VMware Spring REST Docs. These vulnerabilities arise when using spring-restdocs-webtestclient or spring-restdocs-restassistant to record remote APIs accesse...

CVE-2026-40991 XML External Entity (XXE) injection when documenting untrusted XML content

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 execute...

CVE-2026-40991

The CVE-2026-40991 issue affects Spring REST Docs: 4.0.0; 3.0.0–3.0.5; and 2.0.0.RELEASE–2.0.8.RELEASE. When using spring-restdocs-webtestclient or spring-restdocs-restassured to document a remote HTTP API, an attacker who compromises the API or tricks a user into documenting a malicious API can ...

CVE-2026-40991 XML External Entity (XXE) injection when documenting untrusted XML content

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 execute...

CVE-2026-40991 XML External Entity (XXE) injection when documenting untrusted XML content

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 execute...

cve-2026-40991 - MEDIUM - XML External Entity (XXE) injection when documenting untrusted XML content

cve-2026-40991 - MEDIUM - XML External Entity XXE injection when documenting untrusted XML content...

XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity XXE Injection due to improperly configured XML parsing in the PrettyPrintingContentModifier and XmlContentHandler classes, in PrettyPrintingContentModifier.java and payload/XmlContentHandler.java. When the...

PT-2026-48306

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Spring REST Docs version 4.0.0 Spring REST Docs versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.5 Spring REST Docs versions 2.0.0.RELEASE through 2.0.8.RELEASE Description An XXE XML External Entity injection attack can occur when using spring-restdocs-webtestclie...

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