CVE-2026-40980: VMware Spring Ai

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Spring AI, a malicious PDF file can be crafted that triggers the allocation of unreasonable amounts of memory when handled by `ForkPDFLayoutTextStripper`. Affected versions: Spring AI: 1.0.0 - 1.0.5 (fixed in 1.0.6), 1.1.0 - 1.1.4 (fixed in 1.1.5)

Affected products

• VMware Spring Ai: from 1.0.0, before 1.0.6 (fixed in 1.0.6); from 1.1.0, before 1.1.5 (fixed in 1.1.5)

Published 2026-04-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.