FKIE_CVE-2026-40986

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-11 07:16 - Updated: 2026-06-11 15:21
Severity
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Spring Web Flow's JavaScript RemotingHandler renders the body of an error response as HTML even when the response is not "text/html", which can result in a scripting attack in the user's browser if the error response from the server contains error details with input reflected from an attacker. Affected versions: Spring Web Flow 4.0.0; 3.0.0 through 3.0.1; 2.5.0 through 2.5.1.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40986
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