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GHSA-8HFC-FQ58-R658

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-20 00:31 – Updated: 2026-03-20 20:41

Summary

Spring Boot has an Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths

Details

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.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2026-22731 (GCVE-0-2026-22731)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-19 22:36 – Updated: 2026-03-20 15:33

Title

Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths

Summary

Severity

8.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-20 15:33 UTC

CWE

CWE-288 - Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

1 reference

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

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Spring	Spring Boot	Affected: 4.0 , < 4.0.3 (custom) Affected: 3.5 , < 3.5.11 (custom) Affected: 3.4 , < 3.4.15 (custom)

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