CVE-2026-22731: VMware Spring Boot

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Spring Boot: from 3.4.0, before 3.4.15 (fixed in 3.4.15); from 3.5.0, before 3.5.12 (fixed in 3.5.12); from 4.0.0, before 4.0.4 (fixed in 4.0.4)

Published 2026-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.