spring-projects/spring-framework · Security
Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded Cache in SpEL
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wxpp-56q6-5pcg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-41851
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- 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 ↗