THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-40998 (HIGH 8.2) — Jaxp13XPathTemplate evaluated XPath expressions for StreamSource and SAXSource inputs using a code path that parsed attacker-controlled XML with the JDK's default DocumentBuilderFactory behavior instead of Spring's hardened parser configuration. Applications that evaluate XPath a
[NVD] CVE-2026-40998 (HIGH 8.2) — Jaxp13XPathTemplate evaluated XPath expressions for StreamSource and SAXSource inputs using a code path that parsed attacker-controlled XML with the JDK's default DocumentBuilderFactory behavior instead of Spring's hardened parser configuration. Applications that evaluate XPath a
CVE-2026-40998 CVSS: 8.2 HIGH Published: 2026-06-11T07:16:27.787
Jaxp13XPathTemplate evaluated XPath expressions for StreamSource and SAXSource inputs using a code path that parsed attacker-controlled XML with the JDK's default DocumentBuilderFactory behavior instead of Spring's hardened parser configuration. Applications that evaluate XPath against untrusted XML payloads could therefore be expos
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40998