CVE-2026-40985

Data Binding Vulnerability in Spring Web Flow with Unified EL Parser

State: Published
Severity: 6.4 Medium
Published: Jun 11, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2026

Description

Applications that configure the WebFlowELExpressionParser are vulnerable to the use of malicious Unified EL expressions.

Affected versions: Spring Web Flow 4.0.0; 3.0.0 through 3.0.1; 2.5.0 through 2.5.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-917 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring Web FlowSpring	4.0.0 to before 4.0.0.1Affected 3.0.0 to before 3.0.1.1Affected 2.5.0 to before 2.5.2Affected

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40985

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