Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data in Spring Framework - CVE-2026-22741

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Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data in Spring Framework - CVE-2026-22741

Published: April 21, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU126709
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-22741
CWE-ID: CWE-349
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to improper cache control in static resource resolution when handling malicious requests for encoded resources. A remote attacker can send malicious requests to cause a denial of service.

Exploitation requires resource chain support with caching enabled, encoded resource resolution enabled, and an empty resource cache.


Affected software

Spring Framework
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services
Maximo Application Suite Ai Service
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced with IBM
Library Support for Spring

How to mitigate CVE-2026-22741

Install security update from vendor's website.

Spring Framework - addressed in versions 5.3.48, 6.1.27, 6.2.18, 7.0.7
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services - addressed in versions 6.3.0.19, 6.4.0.8
Maximo Application Suite Ai Service - update to 9.1.15
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced with IBM - update to 1.16.0
Library Support for Spring - update to 2.7.38

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