CVE-2026-40972 (GCVE-0-2026-40972)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-27 23:15
Modified
2026-04-29 03:55
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
Summary
An attacker on the same network as the remote application may be able to utilize a timing attack to discover information about the remote secret. In extreme circumstances this could result in the attacker determining the secret and uploading changed classes, thereby achieving remote code execution in the remote application. 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); DevTools remote secret comparison. Versions that are no longer supported are also affected per vendor advisory.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Spring Spring Boot Version: 4.0.0   < 4.0.6
Version: 3.5.0   < 3.5.14
Version: 3.4.0   < 3.4.16
Version: 3.3.0   < 3.3.19
Version: 2.7.0   < 2.7.33
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