CVE-2026-40999

Spring WS SSRF via unvalidated WS-Addressing reply destinations

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Jun 11, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring Web ServicesSpring	5.0.0 to before 5.0.1.1Affected 4.1.0 to before 4.1.3.1Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.19Affected 3.1.0 to before 3.1.9Affected

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40999

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