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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Devoxx UK organizer and VoxxedDays cofounder Mark Hazell on running great conferences

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Devoxx UK organizer and Voxxed Days cofounder Mark Hazell @mrhazell...

BCrypt skips salt rounds for work factor of 31

Spring Security versions 5.5.x prior to 5.5.7, 5.6.x prior to 5.6.4, and earlier unsupported versions contain an integer overflow vulnerability. When using the BCrypt class with the maximum work factor 31, the encoder does not perform any salt rounds, due to an integer overflow error. The default...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud legend Glenn Renfro about batch processing, tasks, stream processing, data flow, and t-shirts

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Spring Cloud luminary and all around lovable guy Glenn Renfro @cppwfs about batch processing, tasks, messaging, integration, data flow, and a million other things. Also:...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes cofounder and vice president of R&D at VMware, Craig McLuckie

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Kubernetes cofounder, all-around nice person, and vice president of R&D at VMware, Craig McLuckie @cmcluck...

Spring Batch Admin vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery

Spring Batch Admin does not contain Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF protection, which may allow an attacker to craft a malicious site that executes requests to Spring Batch Admin...

Spring Security / MVC Path Matching Inconsistency

Both Spring Security and the Spring Framework rely on URL pattern mappings for authorization and for mapping requests to controllers respectively. Differences in the strictness of the pattern matching mechanisms, for example with regards to space trimming in path segments, can lead Spring Securit...

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-2026-41000 - LOW - WSS4J validation does not use configured replay cache

cve-2026-41000 - LOW - WSS4J validation does not use configured replay cache...

cve-2026-41003 - HIGH - Unencoded HTML Outputs in Spring Security May Allow Cross-Site Scripting

cve-2026-41003 - HIGH - Unencoded HTML Outputs in Spring Security May Allow Cross-Site Scripting...

cve-2026-41730 - MEDIUM - Spring Data REST exposes persistence-layer internals in error responses

cve-2026-41730 - MEDIUM - Spring Data REST exposes persistence-layer internals in error responses...

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-2026-41837 - MEDIUM - Spring Data REST Querydsl integration exposes Jackson-hidden persistent fields as filter keys

cve-2026-41837 - MEDIUM - Spring Data REST Querydsl integration exposes Jackson-hidden persistent fields as filter keys...

This Week in Spring - May 12th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this I am in Miami, FL at the CodeRemix.ai show, focused on the wide and wonderful world of OpenRewrite and Moderne. I've got a talk to give so let's dive right into it! a quick note about the upcoming release train dates in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcas...

Self Routing guard bypassed via function composition

Under infinite recursion in the routing layer, request-handling can cause OOM error...

Expression injection in MilvusVectorStore doDelete allows data destruction

Spring AI's MilvusVectorStoredoDeleteList implementation is vulnerable to filter-expression injection via unsanitized document IDs...

OOM by attacker-controlled PDF

In Spring AI, a malicious PDF file can be crafted that triggers the allocation of unreasonable amounts of memory when handled by ForkPDFLayoutTextStripper . Only applications that use ForkPDFLayoutTextStripper and pass user-supplied input to DocumentReader s are affected...

SQL Injection in CosmosDBVectorStore.doDelete()

SQL injection vulnerability in Spring AI's CosmosDBVectorStore allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries via crafted document IDs. Only applications that use CosmosDBVectorStore and pass user-supplied input as document ids are affected...

A Bootiful Podcast: Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on MCP Security

Hi Spring, AI, Spring AI, security, and Spring Security fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel-Garnier Moiroux! ai mcp security java...

Server-Side Request Forgery in BedrockProxyChatModel via Unvalidated Media URL Fetching

spring-ai-bedrock-converse contains a Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerability in BedrockProxyChatModel when processing multimodal messages that include user-supplied media URLs. Insufficient validation of those URLs allows an attacker to induce the server to issue HTTP requests to unintend...

This Week in Spring - March 9th, 2026

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this in an Uber en route to the airport to get to awsome Atlanta, GA, for Devnexus 2026! Who's goin'? You goin'? We - the Spring team - will be there in force! Come say hi at the boothes or come see our...

A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Sébastien Deleuze on all that's new and nice in Spring Framework 7

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 4.0 release day! Make sure to get the bits on the Spring Initializr you know - start.spring.io! This release is packed with new features, a lot of which comes from Spring Framework 7. To help break it down for us this week, we’re joined by none other than the...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud guru Ryan Baxter

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the amazing Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter, live from SpringOne 2025!...

The Road to GA - Introduction

As you all should be aware by now, the Spring portfolio is in the process of driving towards the next major versions to be released in November of this year. This will be only the fourth major generation for Spring Boot and the seventh major generation for Spring Framework in its over 20 year...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7.0, SpringOne 2025, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I'm joined by Spring Security lead Rob Winch to discuss the amazing new additions to Spring Security 7.0, coming in November of 2025, and the coverage you can expect when you see our talk at SpringOne 2025 have you registered - https://springone.io ?...

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...

Spring Cloud Gateway Server Forwards Headers from Untrusted Proxies

Spring Cloud Gateway Server forwards the X-Forwarded-For and Forwarded headers from untrusted proxies...

Spring Data Ahead of Time Repositories

In the past couple of years we have seen heavy investment throughout the Java ecosystem to reduce application startup times. The main focus gravitates around Ahead-of-Time optimizations. May it be condensing code into a GraalVM native executable, capturing already optimized bytecode with...

This Week in Spring - April 15th, 2025

Spring AI M7 is here! This new release includes a bunch of awesome new features! And some refactorings. Notably that the Spring AI auto-configuration has changed from a single monolithic artifact to individual auto-configuration artifacts per model, vector store, and other components. This change...

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...

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do. I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be...

This Week in Spring - February 11th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do. I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be...

A Bootiful Podcast: Apache Causeway’s Dan Haywood

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Dan Haywood, contributor to the Apache Causeway project...

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...

Leverage the Power of 45k, free, Hugging Face Models with Spring AI and Ollama

This blog post is co-authored by our great contributor Thomas Vitale. Ollama now supports all GGUF models from Hugging Face , allowing access to over 45,000 community-created models through Spring AI's Ollama integration, runnable locally. We'll explore using this new feature with Spring AI. The...

This Week in Spring - October 1st, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! it's the first of October! We're officially in the fourth quarter of 2024! Time's moving too quickly. Way too quickly. But as always, there's awesome stuff afoot, so let's dive right in! Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller looks at the road ahead, to Spring Framework 6.2 and...

A Bootiful Podcast: Oracle Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando on Java 23, Structured Concurrency, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Java Developer advocate at Oracle, Billy Korando, about the amazing new features in Java 23 and beyond!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Flowable cofounder and my friend Joram Barrez on workflow, case management, AI, Spring, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I catch up with my friend Joram Barrez, cofounder of Flowable, an amazing and opensource workflow engine, on their latest and greatest, AI, Spring, and so much more. workflow bpmn apache2 springboot java...

This Week in Spring - September 3rd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's September 3rd, and I'm still buzzing from the last week's SpringOne extravaganza! Also: I'm tired. Last week was nuts. I'm super glad it happened, but I'm tired. And also buzzing. You know? Surely you don't. I hope not...

Spring Framework DoS via conditional HTTP request

Applications that parse ETags from "If-Match" or "If-None-Match" request headers are vulnerable to DoS attack...

Spring Tips: Proxies

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the use of JDK and CGLIB-based proxies in Spring, and demystify their application Java SpringBoot SpringFramework Architecture DesignPatterns oop...

Spring AI - Groq AI inference

Faster information processing not only inform—it transforms how we perceive and innovate. Spring AI, a powerful framework for integrating AI capabilities into Spring applications, now offers support for Groq - a blazingly fast AI inference engine with supports for Tool/Function calling. Because...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Jetbrains Developer Advocate Pasha Finkelshteyn

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment I talk to Jetbrains' Developer Advocate Pasha Finkelshteyn...

Spring Tips: the Spring Expression Language

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at the excellent Spring Expression Language, an embedded language for resolving simple expressions that is built right into the Spring Framework...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring trainer extraordinairre Patrick Baumgartner

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talked to Spring trainer extraordinaire, long-time community contributor, and Voxxed Days co-organizer for various shows in Switzerland. This talk was recorded live at Voxxed Days CERN!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili helps us ring in the new year

Hi, Spring fans! And Happy new year! In this episode I talk to Kubernetes guru Leigh Capili, who helps us ring in the new year!...

This Week in Spring - December 19th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another oh-so-festive edition of This Week in Spring! the Spring Authorization Server 1.2.1, 1.1.14, and 0.4.5, are now available Spring AMQP 3.1.1 is now available Spring Security 5.8.9, 6.1.6, 6.2.1 are now available Spring for Apache Kakfa 3.1.1 is now available...

CDS with Spring Framework 6.1

As a follow-up to the Runtime efficiency with Spring blog post, I am happy to share that our exploration of Project Leyden optimizations has led to some interesting discoveries regarding the JDK's little-used CDS "Class Data Sharing" feature and has materialized into a new feature that we have be...