CVE-2026-47886

Applications that evaluate user-supplied Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack when the power operator (^) is used with a BigDecimal or BigInteger operand and a large exponent value. Spring Framework 7.0.0 - 7.0.8 Spring Framework 6.2.0 - 6.2.19 Spring Framework 6.1.0 - 6.1.28 Spring Framework 6.0.0 - 6.0.30 Spring Framework 5.3.0 - 5.3.49 Spring Framework 5.2.25.RELEASE and earlier

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Analyzed - security@vmware.com

Published

2026-08-27

Last modified

2026-08-27

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

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

References

• https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-47886