CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-41851
High (7.5) in vmware spring framework. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.springframework:spring-expression 6.2.19, 7.0.8.
Applications which accept user-supplied Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack if the evaluation of a SpEL expression triggers unbounded cache growth.
Affected versions:
Spring Framework 7.0.0 through 7.0.7; 6.2.0 through 6.2.18; 6.1.0 through 6.1.27; 5.3.0 through 5.3.48.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-770
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:spring_framework
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-wxpp-56q6-5pcg | Maven | org.springframework:spring-expression | >=7.0.0 <7.0.8 | 7.0.8 |
| GHSA-wxpp-56q6-5pcg | Maven | org.springframework:spring-expression | >=6.2.0 <6.2.19 | 6.2.19 |
| GHSA-wxpp-56q6-5pcg | Maven | org.springframework:spring-expression | >=6.1.0 <=6.1.21 | no fix published |
| GHSA-wxpp-56q6-5pcg | Maven | org.springframework:spring-expression | <=5.3.39 | no fix published |