GHSA-whpp-xv3h-rwxfHighCVSS 8.6

Spring Web Services: SSRF via unvalidated WS-Addressing reply destinations

Published
June 11, 2026
Last Modified
August 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-40999 →

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products4

  • maven/org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-core:>= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.1
  • maven/org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-core:>= 4.1.0, <= 4.1.3
  • maven/org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-core:>= 4.0.0, <= 4.0.18
  • maven/org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-core:>= 3.1.0, <= 3.1.8

🔗 References (4)