Spring Tips: the Spring Authorization Server: durability of data

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we continue our look at the venerable Spring Authorization Server, this time looking at how to configure persistence and durability for various aspects of the system...

local information disclosure via temporary directory created with unsafe permissions

In Spring Cloud Contract, versions 4.1.x prior to 4.1.1, versions 4.0.x prior to 4.0.5, and versions 3.1.x prior to 3.1.10, test execution is vulnerable to local information disclosure via temporary directory created with unsafe permissions through the shaded com.google.guava:guava dependency in...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM founder and Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger about the project he created and leads, GraalVM. This was recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 2023!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring AI lead Dr. Mark Pollack

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Dr. Mark Pollack, lead of the new Spring AI project. This episode was recorded live at SpringOne at VMware Explore 2023, in Las Vegas...

This Week in Spring - August 1st, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August 1, 2023??? Me either. As I write this, I'm preparing some of my contributions for SpringOne at VMWare Explore 2023, happening next month in lovely Las Vegas, NV. Have you registered yet? I'...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Framework and Spring Boot legend Stéphane Nicoll on a Bootiful Podcast

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talk to Spring team legend Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll about Spring Boot, Apache Maven and Gradle, his journey to the Spring team, and so much more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful...

A Bootiful Podcast: Jetbrains' Anton Arhipov on IntelliJ, Java, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long talks to Jetbrain's developer advocate Anton Arhipov, recorded live from the amazing Spring IO show in Barcelona, Spain!...

A Bootiful Podcast: Grubhub's Josh Burns on Kotlin, Spring Boot, and more

We're crossing the streams, again! This time Josh Long talks to Grubhub's John Burns twitter: @wakingrufus mastodon: @[email protected] about dogfooding human food, Grubhub's tech stack, and more...

A Bootiful Podcast: Sonatype's Steve Poole and Gradle's Justin Reock on Improving Developer Productivity without compromising on things like security

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, recorded at Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, I talk to newcomer to the show Steve Poole, from Sonatype, and Justin Reock, from Gradle, about improving developer productivity without comprising on things like...

A Bootiful Podcast: It's Glenn Renfro! Listen to this episode if you want to feel better

Hi, Spring fans! Today Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Atlanta JUG, Devnexus, Spring Cloud Task, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Dataflow luminary, and the living embodiment of the word "joy:" Glenn Renfro @cppwfs Watch the podcast in living color on Youtube!...

A Bootiful Podcast: opensource, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes maestro Abel Salgado Romero

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Abel Salgado Romero @abelsromero about open source, Kubernetes, and building Kubernetes controllers with Spring Boot and GraalVM native images...

A Bootiful Podcast: GraalVM advocate Alina Yurenko on a Bootiful Podcast

Liiiive from New York, its a Bootiful Podcast! This week I @starbuxman talk to Developer Advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs, and legend, Alina Yurenko @alinayurenko...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: RabbitMQ engineer Arnaud Cogoluègnes on the new and novel in RabbitMQ

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to RabbitMQ engineer Arnaud Cogoluègnes @acogoluegnes on the new and novel in RabbitMQ...

This Week in Spring - November 8th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Ive been busy this last week! Ive been visiting with customers and talking to the community here in South East Asia. I was in Malaysia last week, and now Im in Bangkok, Thailand. Im near the end of my time here in SE Asia,...

Spring Session 2022.0.0-M3 Released

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2022.0.0-M3. These releases deliver, enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up these artifacts with its upcoming releases. The following modules were updated as part...

This Week in Spring - August 9th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine Tuesday? Im in Kansas City for the Kansas City Developer Conference. Its a crazy fun show, and Im glad to be here. I only wish the rest of you were here, too! Weve got a packed This Week in Spring,...

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: Spring I/O founder, Spring trainer and community legend Sergi Almar

Hi, Spring fans! At long last, against all odds, Josh Long @starbuxman finally gets to talk to Spring I/O founder and more-than-a-decade-long friend Sergi Almar @sergialmar about an edition of Spring I/O after 2019!...

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:...

Reactor Netty Consumes a Vulnerable Version of Netty

Reactor Netty, versions 0.8.x prior to 0.8.13 and 0.9.x prior to 0.9.1, depends on vulnerable versions of netty versions prior to 4.1.42, which incorrectly handles whitespace before a colon in headers, leading to HTTP request smuggling attacks...

XML External Entity Injection (XXE)

Spring Integration spring-integration-xml and spring-integration-ws modules, versions 4.3.18, 5.0.10, 5.1.1, and older unsupported versions, were susceptible to XML External Entity Injection XXE when receiving XML data from untrusted sources...

Remote Code Execution with spring-messaging

Spring Framework, versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.5 and versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.16, and older unsupported versions allow applications to expose STOMP over WebSocket endpoints with a simple, in-memory STOMP broker through the spring-messaging module. A malicious user or attacker can craft a messag...

RCE in PATCH requests in Spring Data REST

Malicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST backed HTTP resources can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbitrary Java code...

Directory Traversal in the Spring Framework ResourceServlet

Paths provided to the ResourceServlet were not properly sanitized and as a result exposed to directory traversal attacks...

XSS when using Spring MVC

When a programmer does not specify the action on the Spring form, Spring automatically populates the action field with the requested uri. An attacker can use this to inject malicious content into the form...

This Week in Spring - September 15th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this to you from sun-kissed San Francisco, CA, sipping some coffee and watching the bay from my breakfast nook. What a wonderful day! A wonderful day in which to learn about the latest and greatest in...

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...

A Bootiful Podcast: BellSoft's Catherine Edelveis on hardened runtime images, container security, and more

Hi, Spring fans! I chat with BellSoft’s Catherine Edelweiss about using buildpacks and hardened images to ship Spring Boot apps with stronger security, cleaner defaults, and far less Dockerfile pain. BellSoft Docker Java JRE SpringBoot...

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-2026-59285

CVE-2026-59285...

cve-2026-59280 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Path Traversal via Backslash in SpringTemplateLoader

cve-2026-59280 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Path Traversal via Backslash in SpringTemplateLoader...

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-2026-47884 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Improper Path Limitation in XsltView

cve-2026-47884 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Improper Path Limitation in XsltView...

cve-2026-59281 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Cross-site Scripting via EscapedErrors

cve-2026-59281 - MEDIUM - Spring Framework Cross-site Scripting via EscapedErrors...

cve-2026-47873 - HIGH - CVE-2026-47873: Spring Tools Docker integration publishes unauthenticated debug (JDWP) and JMX ports on all network interfaces

The Boot Dashboard Docker integration in Spring Tools publishes container control ports on all of the host's network interfaces 0.0.0.0 rather than restricting them to loopback...

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...

cve-2026-40986 - MEDIUM - Spring Web Flow JS RemotingHandler renders non-HTML Response as HTML

cve-2026-40986 - MEDIUM - Spring Web Flow JS RemotingHandler renders non-HTML Response as HTML...

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...

cve-2026-41720 - HIGH - Authentication Bypass with Empty Password in Spring LDAP

cve-2026-41720 - HIGH - Authentication Bypass with Empty Password in Spring LDAP...

cve-2026-41715 - MEDIUM - Reactor Netty HTTP Client Leaks Credentials On Protocol Downgrade Redirect

cve-2026-41715 - MEDIUM - Reactor Netty HTTP Client Leaks Credentials On Protocol Downgrade Redirect...

Self Routing guard bypassed via function composition

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

Unbounded cache for function definitions

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

VectorStore FilterExpression Converter injection

In Spring AI, various FilterExpressionConverter implementations accept a filter expression object and translate them to specific vector store query languages. In several cases, keys and values are not properly escaped, leading to the ability to alter the query. Only applications that use...

Servlet Path Not Correctly Included in Path Matching of HttpSecurity#securityMatchers

If an application is using securityMatchersString and a PathPatternRequestMatcher.Builder bean to prepend a servlet path, matching requests to that filter chain may fail and its related security components will not be exercised as intended by the application. This can lead to the authentication,...

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 via Filter Expression Keys in Neo4jVectorStore

spring-ai-neo4j-store contains a Cypher injection vulnerability in Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter . When a user-controlled string is passed as a filter expression key in Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter of spring-ai-neo4j-store , doKey embeds the key into a backtick-delimited Cypher...

Spring Cloud Config Profile Substitution Can Allow Unintended Access To Files And Enable SSRF Attacks

When substituting the profile parameter from a request made to the Spring Cloud Config Server configured to the native file system as a backend, it was possible to access files outside of the configured search directories. In addition, when using a source control backend, the profile parameter...