GHSA-6rpq-6vv2-5222MediumCVSS 5.9

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

Published
June 10, 2026
Last Modified
August 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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 documentation-generating tests are next executed.

Affected versions: Spring REST Docs 4.0.0; 3.0.0 through 3.0.5; 2.0.0.RELEASE through 2.0.8.RELEASE.

🎯 Affected products6

  • maven/org.springframework.restdocs:spring-restdocs-webtestclient:= 4.0.0
  • maven/org.springframework.restdocs:spring-restdocs-webtestclient:>= 3.0.0, <= 3.0.5
  • maven/org.springframework.restdocs:spring-restdocs-webtestclient:<= 2.0.8.RELEASE
  • maven/org.springframework.restdocs:spring-restdocs-restassured:= 4.0.0
  • maven/org.springframework.restdocs:spring-restdocs-restassured:>= 3.0.0, <= 3.0.5
  • maven/org.springframework.restdocs:spring-restdocs-restassured:<= 2.0.8.RELEASE

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