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CVE-2026-40986

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 scr…

Impact

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.springframework.webflow:spring-webflow= 4.0.04.0.1

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
BroadcomSpring Web Flow
before 2.5.2
from 3.0.0 before 3.0.1.1
Version 4.0.0

Weakness classification

References