CVE-2026-41708 PUBLISHED

Spring Cloud Sleuth instrumentation of Spring TX DoS vulnerability

Assigner: vmware
Reserved: 22.04.2026 Published: 15.06.2026 Updated: 15.06.2026

In Spring Cloud Sleuth, it is possible for a user to provide specially crafted calls that may cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The application is vulnerable when it uses a vulnerable version of org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-sleuth-instrumentation and Spring TX instrumentation is not disabled.

Affected versions: Spring Cloud Sleuth 3.1.0 through 3.1.13.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

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

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Spring
Product	Spring Cloud Sleuth
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 3.1.0 to 3.1.14 (excl.)

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41708

Problem Types

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE

Impacts

Per CVSS v3.1: Availability HIGH.