Security Bulletin: Due to use of spring-boot-autoconfigure-3.5.13.jar, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services is vulnerable to not perform hostname verification.

Summary spring-boot-autoconfigure-3.5.13.jar is used by IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services CVE-2026-40971, CVE-2026-40974. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2026-40971 DESCRIPTION: When configured to use an SSL bundle, Spring Boot's RabbitMQ auto-configuration does not perform hostname...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-40971

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - When configured to use an SSL bundle, Spring Boot's RabbitMQ auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when connecting to the RabbitMQ broker...

CVE-2026-40971

When configured to use an SSL bundle, Spring Boot's RabbitMQ auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when connecting to the RabbitMQ broker. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5 fix 4.0.6, 3.5.0–3.5.13 fix 3.5.14 per vendor advisory...