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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-22 | Published 2026-06-09 | Updated 2026-06-09 | Assigner vmware




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Default status
unaffected

7.0.0 (custom) before 7.0.8
affected

6.2.0 (custom) before 6.2.19
affected

6.1.0 (custom) before 6.1.28
affected

5.3.0 (custom) before 5.3.49
affected

References

spring.io/security/cve-2026-41851

cve.org (CVE-2026-41851)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-41851)

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