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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2026-47886

High
7.5/10

Summary

Applications that evaluate user-supplied Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions may be vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack when the power operator (^) is used with a BigDecimal or BigInteger operand and a large exponent value. This issue affects Spring Framework versions from through 5.2.25.RELEASE, 5.3.0 through 5.3.49, 6.0.0 through 6.0.30, 6.1.0 through 6.1.28, 6.2.0 through 6.2.19 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.8.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published