GHSA-wxpp-56q6-5pcgMediumCVSS 5.3
Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded Cache in SpEL
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
🎯 Affected products4
- maven/org.springframework:spring-expression:>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.7
- maven/org.springframework:spring-expression:>= 6.2.0, <= 6.2.18
- maven/org.springframework:spring-expression:>= 6.1.0, <= 6.1.21
- maven/org.springframework:spring-expression:<= 5.3.39
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41851
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41851
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/2c18c33ce0f89bf718c184190cfb7ed49b4276fb
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/76a36dfd707cddbe7118a81c2e055b36501d2cff
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/releases/tag/v6.2.19
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/releases/tag/v7.0.8
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wxpp-56q6-5pcg