CVE-2026-22731

Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths

HIGH 8.2

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-03-19 22:36 UTC
Updated: 2026-03-20 15:33 UTC
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Spring Boot applications with Actuator can be vulnerable to an "Authentication Bypass" vulnerability when an application endpoint that requires authentication is declared under a specific path, already configured for a Health Group additional path. This issue affects Spring Boot: from 4.0 before 4.0.3, from 3.5 before 3.5.11, from 3.4 before 3.4.15. This CVE is similar but not equivalent to CVE-2026-22733, as the conditions for exploit and vulnerable versions are different.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-288 — Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22731

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	vmware
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	NVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

GHSA-8hfc-fq58-r658 — Spring Boot has an Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-13345
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-22731

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0933 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0556 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0323 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Spring · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 3.4.0 < 3.4.15
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 3.5.0 < 3.5.12
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.0.0 < 4.0.4

Affected products

Product	Versions
Spring · Spring Boot	affected 4.0 < 4.0.3 ; affected 3.5 < 3.5.11 ; affected 3.4 < 3.4.15

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