GHSA-mgvc-8q2h-5pgc

Spring Boot has an Authentication Bypass under Actuator CloudFoundry endpoints

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-22733
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Description

Spring Boot applications with Actuator can be vulnerable to an "Authentication Bypass" vulnerability when an application endpoint that requires authentication is declared under the path used by the CloudFoundry Actuator endpoints. This issue affects Spring Security: from 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, from 3.5.0 through 3.5.11, from 3.4.0 through 3.4.14, from 3.3.0 through 3.3.17, from 2.7.0 through 2.7.31.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuatorintroduced 4.0.0-M1, fixed 4.0.4
Maven · org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuatorintroduced 3.5.0, fixed 3.5.12
Maven · org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuatorintroduced 3.4.0, last affected 3.4.13
Maven · org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuatorintroduced 3.0.0, last affected 3.3.13
Maven · org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuatorintroduced 0, last affected 2.7.18

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database