CVE-2026-22731

Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Mar 19, 2026
Updated: Mar 20, 2026
Reserved: Jan 9, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-288 Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring BootSpring	4.0 to before 4.0.3Affected 3.5 to before 3.5.11Affected 3.4 to before 3.4.15Affected

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22731

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