CVE-2026-22731 PUBLISHED

Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths

Assigner: vmware
Reserved: 09.01.2026 Published: 19.03.2026 Updated: 20.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Spring
Product	Spring Boot
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 4.0 to 4.0.3 (excl.) affected from 3.5 to 3.5.11 (excl.) affected from 3.4 to 3.4.15 (excl.)

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22731

Problem Types

CWE-288 Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel CWE