CVE-2026-41849

Spring Framework Denial of Service via Integer Overflow in SpEL Expressions

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 18 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-06-09
Updated: 2026-06-09
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the evaluation logic of the Spring Expression Language (SpEL). An attacker can exploit this by supplying a specially crafted SpEL expression that triggers excessive resource consumption, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Affected versions: Spring Framework 5.3.0 through 5.3.48.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	vmware
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-190

Advisories

GHSA-775g-4xr8-78h8 — Spring Framework Denial of Service via Integer Overflow in SpEL Expressions

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-35337
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-41849

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-1336 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 5.3.0 < 5.3.49

Affected products

Product	Versions
Spring · Spring Framework	affected 5.3.0 < 5.3.49

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41849

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD