What is GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w?

GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Spring Web Flow's JavaScript RemotingHandler renders the body of an error response as HTML even...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w cover?

GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-40986. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w?

GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96wMediumCVSS 4.8

Spring Web Flow's JavaScript RemotingHandler renders the body of an error response as HTML even...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 11, 2026

Last Modified

June 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-40986 →

📋 Description

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 (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40986
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40986
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w