spring-projects/spring-boot · Security
Spring Boot has an Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8hfc-fq58-r658
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-22731
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 8.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Description
Spring Boot applications with Actuator can be vulnerable to an "Authentication Bypass" vulnerability when an application endpoint that requires authentication is declared under a specific path, already configured for a Health Group additional path. This issue affects Spring Boot: from 4.0 before 4.0.3, from 3.5 before 3.5.11, from 3.4 before 3.4.15. This CVE is similar but not equivalent to CVE-2026-22733, as the conditions for exploit and vulnerable versions are different.
CWEs
- CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
- CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function