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.
{
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-05-06T18:54:08Z",
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-862"
],
"nvd_published_at": "2026-04-28T00:16:24Z",
"severity": "CRITICAL"
}