MEDIUM | APRIL 17, 2026 | CVE-2026-22745
Description
Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks when resolving static resources.
More precisely, an application can be vulnerable when all the following are true:
- the application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux
- the application is serving static resources from the file system
- the application is running on a Windows platform
When all the conditions above are met, the attacker can send malicious requests that are slow to resolve and that can keep HTTP connections in use. This can cause a Denial of Service on the application.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
Spring Framework:
- 7.0.0 - 7.0.6
- 6.2.0 - 6.2.17
- 6.1.0 - 6.1.26
- 5.3.0 - 5.3.47
Older, unsupported versions are also vulnerable.
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
| Affected version(s) | Fix version | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0.x | 7.0.7 | OSS |
| 6.2.x | 6.2.18 | OSS |
| 6.1.x | 6.1.27 | Commercial |
| 5.3.x | 5.3.48 | Commercial |
No further mitigation steps are necessary.
Credit
This issue was responsibly reported by Bocheng Xiang (@crispr) from Fudan University.
References
History
- 2026-04-17: Initial vulnerability report published.
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