Security Advisory

CVE-2026-40976

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-04-27 23:34:51
Last updated 2026-07-15 01:00:17
Assigner vmware
CVSS score 9.1
State PUBLISHED

Description

In certain circumstances, Spring Boot's default web security is ineffective allowing unauthorized access to all endpoints. For an application to be vulnerable, it must: be a servlet-based web application; have no Spring Security configuration of its own and rely on the default web security filter chain; depend on spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure; not depend on spring-boot-health. If any of the above does not apply, the application is not vulnerable. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5; upgrade to 4.0.6 or later per vendor advisory.