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CVE-2026-40976

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.1 Published: 2026-04-28 Modified: 2026-07-24

Description

In certain circumstances, Spring Boot's default web security is ineffective allowing unauthorized access to all endpoints. For an application to be vulnerable, it must: be a servlet-based web application; have no Spring Security configuration of its own and rely on the default web security filter chain; depend on spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure; not depend on spring-boot-health. If any of the above does not apply, the application is not vulnerable. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5; upgrade to 4.0.6 or later per vendor advisory.

Affected Platforms

Vmware Spring Boot

Weakness Type

CWE-862, CWE-305

References