spring-projects/spring-webflow · Security
Spring Web Flow JS RemotingHandler renders non-HTML Response as HTML
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hw5c-xm3c-v96w
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-40986
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')