FKIE_CVE-2026-40974

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-28 00:16 - Updated: 2026-05-14 16:00
Severity
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Spring Boot's Cassandra auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when establishing an SSL connection to Cassandra. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5 (fix 4.0.6), 3.5.0–3.5.13 (fix 3.5.14), 3.4.0–3.4.15 (fix 3.4.16), 3.3.0–3.3.18 (fix 3.3.19), 2.7.0–2.7.32 (fix 2.7.33); Cassandra SSL auto-configuration. Versions that are no longer supported are also affected per vendor advisory.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40974Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware spring_boot *
vmware spring_boot *
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vmware spring_boot *
vmware spring_boot *
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