CVE-2026-40976CRITICAL 9.1EPSS p32.8%

CVE-2026-40976CVE-2026-40976

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.

Scoring

CVSS 3.19.1 (CRITICAL)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS0.41% probability of exploitation · percentile 32.8% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z
Published2026-04-28
Last modified2026-04-30

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-862

References

  1. https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40976

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TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessMissing Authorizationcwe-8620%live

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