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Description

Spring Boot's Cassandra auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when establishing an SSL connection to Cassandra. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5 (fix 4.0.6), 3.5.0–3.5.13 (fix 3.5.14), 3.4.0–3.4.15 (fix 3.4.16), 3.3.0–3.3.18 (fix 3.3.19), 2.7.0–2.7.32 (fix 2.7.33); Cassandra SSL auto-configuration. Versions that are no longer supported are also affected per vendor advisory.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-16 | Published 2026-04-27 | Updated 2026-04-28 | Assigner vmware




MEDIUM: 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Problem types

CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation

Product status

Default status
unaffected

4.0.0 (custom) before 4.0.6
affected

3.5.0 (custom) before 3.5.14
affected

3.4.0 (custom) before 3.4.16
affected

3.3.0 (custom) before 3.3.19
affected

2.7.0 (custom) before 2.7.33
affected

References

spring.io/security/cve-2026-40974

cve.org (CVE-2026-40974)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40974)

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