Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Important Changes and Updates

Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Important Changes and Updates Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT introduces several important changes to artifact IDs, dependency management, and autoconfiguration. This blog post outlines these changes and provides guidance on how to update your projects. The most significa...

Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring

The Spring team will be rolling out a simplified contribution process that replaces the requirement to sign a Contributor License Agreement CLA with a Developer Certificate of Origin DCO. The process will start this week with Spring Framework, Spring Security, & Spring Boot and then roll out to t...

Audio Multimodality: Expanding AI Interaction with Spring AI and OpenAI

This blog post is co-authored by our great contributor Thomas Vitale. OpenAI provides specialized models for speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion, recognized for their performance and cost-efficiency. Spring AI integrates these capabilities via Voice-to-Text and Text-to-Speech TTS. The ne...

Spring Tips: Testcontainers, Docker Compose, and Service Connections, oh my

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the amazing service connection mechanism in Spring Boot. Service connections are what allow Spring Boot to connect to Testcontainers or Docker Compose containers for supporting infrastructure like SQL databases, middleare, and more. java...

This Week in Spring - July 2nd, 2024

Hi, spring fans! Welcome to another amazing installment of This Week in Spring! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, recorded a few weeks ago at Spring IO, I talked with Spring Security legend Laur Spilca In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at a number of ways you cou...

Spring Cloud Function Web DOS Vulnerability

Description In Spring Cloud Function framework, versions 4.1.x prior to 4.1.2, 4.0.x prior to 4.0.8 an application is vulnerable to a DOS attack when attempting to compose functions with non-existing functions. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true: User is...

A Bootiful Podcast: Stuart Marks (aka ”Dr. Deprecator”) on Java, its amazing features, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Happy one-day-belated Java 22 release day to those who celebrate! To ring in the new release, we've got an extra special and incredible discussion with a Java legend - somebody who's been involved in the Java community and work for decades - Stuart Marks, or "Dr. Deprecator," as...

Possible Broken Access Control in Spring Security With Direct Use of AuthenticatedVoter

In Spring Security, versions 5.7.x prior to 5.7.12, 5.8.x prior to 5.8.11, versions 6.0.x prior to 6.0.9, versions 6.1.x prior to 6.1.8, versions 6.2.x prior to 6.2.3, an application is possible vulnerable to broken access control when it directly uses the AuthenticatedVotervote passing a null...

Spring Tips: the Spring Authorization Server: securing SPAs and messaging flows

hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we continue our look at the venerable Spring Authorization Server, this time looking at how to extend its use beyond just HTTP APIs, to secure single page applications and messaging flows with OAuth...

Broken Access Control in Spring Security With Direct Use of isFullyAuthenticated

In Spring Security, versions 6.1.x prior to 6.1.7 and versions 6.2.x prior to 6.2.2, an application is vulnerable to broken access control when it directly uses the AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticatedAuthentication method. Specifically, an application is vulnerable if: An application...

This Week in Spring - November 14th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less! Some key features include: virtual threads initial CRaC support more...

This Week in Spring - August 8th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm baaaaack in the USA for the first time in more than two months, and it feels great to be home! I just concluded a tour of Asia, visiting Taipei, Taiwan Sydney, and the Blue Mountains, in Australia Seoul, S. Korea Singapor...

Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI

Note from Josh: Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to cross post this article looking at using Spring and Azure OpenAI from Microsoft's Sean Li because it's interesting: enjoy! Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is t...

A Bootiful Podcast: Mario Fusco, the Drools rules engine project lead and fellow Java Champion

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Drools lead Mario Fusco @mariofusco about the rules engine Drools and its integrations with Spring, Olivetti computers, and so much more...

Remote Code Execution via YAML editors in STS4 extensions for Eclipse and VSCode

Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support version 1.39.0 and below all use Snakeyaml library for YAML editing support. This library allows for some...

A Bootiful Podcast: Couchbase and Cloud legend Laurent Doguin

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to his friend, fellow Java Champion, and director of developer relations and strategy at Couchbase, Laurent Doguin @ldoguin SpringOne 2022 is almost here! This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and its when we release...

Spring Data MongoDB SpEL Expression injection vulnerability through annotated repository query methods

A Spring Data MongoDB application is vulnerable to SpEL Injection when using @Query or @Aggregation-annotated query methods with SpEL expressions that contain query parameter placeholders for value binding if the input is not sanitized. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the...

Spring Cloud Function Dos Vulnerability

In Spring Cloud Function versions 3.2.5 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user who directly interacts with framework provided lookup functionality to cause denial of service condition due to the caching issue in Function Catalog component of the framework. At the time of writin...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and Spring Katas legend Chandra Guntur

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to fellow Java Champion and Java ecosystem luminary Chandra Guntur @cguntur about Java, Spring, and the Spring Katas, among other things...

A Bootiful Podcast: Simon Ritter, Java Champion and deputy CTO at Azul

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Azul Deputy CTO and Javas own mad scientist and luminary Simon Ritter @speakjava...

Spring Cloud Netflix Hystrix Dashboard template resolution vulnerability

Applications using both spring-cloud-netflix-hystrix-dashboard and spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf expose a way to execute code submitted within the request URI path during the resolution of view templates. When a request is made at /hystrix/monitor;user-provided data , the path elements following...

Kryo Configuration Allows Code Execution with Unknown “Serialization Gadgets”

Spring Integration framework provides Kryo Codec implementations as an alternative for Java deserialization. When Kryo is configured with default options, all unregistered classes are resolved on demand. This leads to the "deserialization gadgets" exploit when provided data contains malicious cod...

Directory Traversal with spring-cloud-config-server

Spring Cloud Config, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.2, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.7, and older unsupported versions allow applications to serve arbitrary configuration files through the spring-cloud-config-server module. A malicious user, or attacker, can send a request using a specially crafted UR...

Spring AI Modular RAG and TypeSafe Jev: Retrieve More, Keep Only What Answers

Spring AI: RAG Doc | Jev Doc | Demo In the previous article we introduced Spring AI TypeSafe and its Jev model: typed questions in, calibrated numbers out, in a few hundred milliseconds. One row in that article's SPI table deserves its own post. JevDocumentFilter and JevDocumentReranker are...

A Bootiful Podcast: Netflix's Paul Bakker

Hi, Spring fans! This week’s interview is a must-watch if you care about where Java is headed next. This week, I talk to Netflix's Paull Bakker! We dig into Netflix’s real-world playbook for scaling Java, cutting costs with newer JDKs, and replacing reactive complexity with virtual threads and...

Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E21 - Pro Spring Boot 4 with Felipe Gutierrez

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by returning guest Felipe Gutierrez, co-author with DaShaun of the new book "Pro Spring Boot 4: An Authoritative Guide with Best Practices" from Apress. Felipe and DaShau...

CVE-2026-59322

CVE-2026-59322...

CVE-2026-59320

CVE-2026-59320...

CVE-2026-41850

CVE-2026-41850...

CVE-2026-59285

CVE-2026-59285...

cve-2026-59282 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded List Growth in Data Binding

cve-2026-59282 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded List Growth in Data Binding...

cve-2026-47852 - HIGH - Predictable cache directory location allows local ONNX model substitution in Spring AI

cve-2026-47852 - HIGH - Predictable cache directory location allows local ONNX model substitution in Spring AI...

cve-2026-47848 - MEDIUM - Reactor Netty WebSocket Client Leaks Credentials On Redirect

cve-2026-47848 - MEDIUM - Reactor Netty WebSocket Client Leaks Credentials On Redirect...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot founder and lead Phil Webb

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot cofounder Phil Webb who joins the show to unpack the latest Spring Boot 4.1 release, from the long-awaited Spring gRPC support and MongoDB batch starter to security, observability, service connections, and other polished improvements...

cve-2026-47882 - LOW - CVE-2026-47882: Spring Boot DevTools remote secret generated with a non-cryptographic PRNG

When enabling Spring Boot DevTools support for a remote application target for example a Docker container or Cloud Foundry app from the Spring Tools Boot Dashboard, Spring Tools generates a shared secret that authenticates DevTools remote-restart uploads to the deployed application. This secret w...

cve-2026-47858 - HIGH - CVE-2026-47858: live information startup mode is vulnerable for remote code execution

Starting Spring Boot applications in the Spring Tools with the live information mode enabled makes the running application vulnerable against JMX-based remote code execution. This affects the live information feature across all environments Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Theia, Cursor except the...

A Bootiful Podcast: Russ Miles on Safer, More Productive Interactions with AI

I’m joined, I think, for the second time by my friend, the legendary architect and developer extraordinaire Russ Miles, who has given some of the most cerebral and exciting Spring keynotes and talks ever. And this time, he’s back to talk about — guess what — A.I. As usual, he’s got a different an...

A Bootiful Podcast: DaShaun Carter on patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege to sit down with my friend DaShaun Carter to talk about patching, Spring Boot 4.1, and security in the world of AI...

cve-2026-47825 - HIGH - Spring Cloud Gateway Server Forwards Headers from Untrusted Proxies in certain situations

cve-2026-47825 - HIGH - Spring Cloud Gateway Server Forwards Headers from Untrusted Proxies in certain situations...

cve-2026-41694 - LOW - SAML Payloads Decrypted Without Valid Signature

cve-2026-41694 - LOW - SAML Payloads Decrypted Without Valid Signature...

cve-2026-41729 - HIGH - Spring Data REST SpEL Injection via Map Key in JSON Patch

cve-2026-41729 - HIGH - Spring Data REST SpEL Injection via Map Key in JSON Patch...

cve-2026-40993 - HIGH - Unfiltered Java Native Deserialization of SAML 2.0 Asserting Party Credentials BLOB Database Entry

cve-2026-40993 - HIGH - Unfiltered Java Native Deserialization of SAML 2.0 Asserting Party Credentials BLOB Database Entry...

cve-2026-41721 - MEDIUM - Spring Data Commons Denial of Service via Data Binding

cve-2026-41721 - MEDIUM - Spring Data Commons Denial of Service via Data Binding...

Unbounded cache for function definitions

OOM error is possible while attempting to add infinite amount of functions to Function Registry...

Spring gRPC SecurityContext leaks across requests on authorization failure

When an authenticated user is denied access to a gRPC method, their authenticated identity remains bound to the gRPC worker thread and can be inherited by a subsequent unauthenticated request on the same thread. This may allow the subsequent user to gain escalated permissions...

ONNX model cache defaults to world-writable predictable /tmp directory

In Spring AI, having access to a shared environment can expose the ONNX model used by the application. Only applications that use TransformersEmbeddingModel and have the cache enabled, using the default location, are affected...

This Week in Spring - September 23rd, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm preparing my talks for several amazing shows including: Commit Your Code conference in Plano, Texas starting tomorrow; Dev2Next in Colorado; Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp, Belgium; and CloudFoundry Days in Germany. So much go...

Spring Data JDBC and R2DBC 4.0 will support Composite IDs

I'm happy to announce, that Spring Data JDBC and R2DBC finally support Composite IDs starting with version 4.0.0-M4. Most of you probably know, but just to make sure everyone has the same understanding: From the database point of view a composite id or composite key is a primary key that consists...

Authentication Leak On Redirect With Reactor Netty HTTP Client

In some specific scenarios with chained redirects, Reactor Netty HTTP client leaks credentials. In order for this to happen, the HTTP client must have been explicitly configured to follow redirects...

Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Part 2 - Important Changes and Updates

Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Part 2 - Important Changes and Updates This blog post is a continuation of our previous article Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Important Changes and Updates, where we introduced the significant changes to artifact IDs, dependency management, and autoconfiguration ...