CVE-2026-22733: VMware Spring Boot

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.4% 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 the path used by the CloudFoundry Actuator endpoints. This issue affects Spring Security: from 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, from 3.5.0 through 3.5.11, from 3.4.0 through 3.4.14, from 3.3.0 through 3.3.17, from 2.7.0 through 2.7.31.

Affected products

• VMware Spring Boot: before 2.7.32 (fixed in 2.7.32); from 3.3.0, before 3.3.18 (fixed in 3.3.18); 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 2026-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.