CVE-2026-41851

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Analyzed - security@vmware.com

Published

2026-06-09

Last modified

2026-06-27

Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected products

• Spring Framework (Spring)
• Spring Framework (Vmware)

References

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