CVE-2026-40999 (GCVE-0-2026-40999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-11 05:04 – Updated: 2026-06-11 16:13
VLAI
Title
Spring WS SSRF via unvalidated WS-Addressing reply destinations
Summary
When WS-Addressing is used with non-anonymous ReplyTo or FaultTo addresses, Spring WS may initiate outbound connections through configured WebServiceMessageSender instances to destinations taken directly from request headers without verifying that those destinations are safe to connect to. 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
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Spring Spring Web Services Affected: 5.0.0 , < 5.0.2 (custom)
Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.4 (custom)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.19 (custom)
Affected: 3.1.0 , < 3.1.9 (custom)
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