CVE-2026-22733 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Spring Boot applications with Actuator can be vulnerable to an "Authentication Bypass" vulnerability when an application endpoint that requires authentication is declared under the path used by the CloudFoundry Actuator endpoints. This issue affects Spring Security: from 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, from 3.5.0 through 3.5.11, from 3.4.0 through 3.4.14, from 3.3.0 through 3.3.17, from 2.7.0 through 2.7.31.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Spring	Spring Security

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References

Link	Providers
https://www.spirityenterprise.com/virtual-ciso
https://www.spirityenterprise.com/mdr-for-endpoint
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22733

History

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Spring Spring spring Security
Vendors & Products		Spring Spring spring Security

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Spring Boot applications with Actuator can be vulnerable to an "Authentication Bypass" vulnerability when an application endpoint that requires authentication is declared under the path used by the CloudFoundry Actuator endpoints. This issue affects Spring Security: from 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, from 3.5.0 through 3.5.11, from 3.4.0 through 3.4.14, from 3.3.0 through 3.3.17, from 2.7.0 through 2.7.31.
Title		Authentication Bypass under Actuator CloudFoundry endpoints
Weaknesses		CWE-288
References		https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22733
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2026-03-19T23:29:10.098Z

Updated: 2026-03-20T14:45:18.731Z

Reserved: 2026-01-09T06:54:41.498Z

Link: CVE-2026-22733

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-20T14:45:14.474Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-03-20T00:16:15.513

Modified: 2026-03-20T13:37:50.737

Link: CVE-2026-22733

Redhat

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