CVE-2026-41851

Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded Cache in SpEL

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jun 9, 2026
Updated: Jun 27, 2026
Reserved: Apr 22, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring FrameworkSpring	7.0.0 to before 7.0.7.1Affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.18.1Affected 6.1.0 to before 6.1.28Affected 5.3.0 to before 5.3.49Affected

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41851

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