CVE-2026-41843 PUBLISHED

Spring Framework Path Traversal via Versioned Static Resources in Spring MVC and WebFlux

Assigner: vmware
Reserved: 22.04.2026 Published: 09.06.2026 Updated: 09.06.2026

Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Path Traversal attacks when resolving static resources.

Affected versions: Spring Framework 7.0.0 through 7.0.7; 6.2.0 through 6.2.18; 6.1.0 through 6.1.27; 5.3.0 through 5.3.48.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.9

Product Status

Vendor Spring
Product Spring Framework
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 7.0.0 to 7.0.8 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.2.0 to 6.2.19 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.1.0 to 6.1.28 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.3.0 to 5.3.49 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) CWE

Impacts

  • An attacker with knowledge of resource metadata can send malicious requests to resolve files outside the configured resource locations via path traversal in versioned static resource handling.