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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-41850 json

Spring Framework Algorithmic Denial of Service via SpEL Expressions

published 2026-06-09 5 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-r5w3-xv2f-j59q , EUVD-2026-35338

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Applications that evaluate user-supplied Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions are vulnerable to an Algorithmic Denial of Service (DoS). By providing a specially crafted expression, an attacker can trigger excessive resource consumption during evaluation, leading to application degradation or unavailability.

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-expression 6.2.19, 7.0.8
  • Spring Spring Framework 5.3.49, 6.1.28, 6.2.18.1, 7.0.7.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-41850 updated cvss 5.9

spring-framework: Spring Framework: Denial of Service via specially crafted SpEL expressions

  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services spring-expression 6.2.14 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces spring-expression 6.2.14
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-expression
>=7.0.0, <7.0.8
>=6.2.0, <6.2.19
>=6.1.0, <=6.1.21
<=5.3.39
7.0.8
6.2.19

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Framework

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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