This Week in Spring - October 28th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's a wonderful tuesday here in my home town of San Francisco as I write this from my condo's balcony, fresh off more than three weeks on the road. By the time we'll speak again in a week, Halloween will have come and gone...

Prompt Caching Support in Spring AI with Anthropic Claude

Large language model API costs can accumulate quickly when applications repeatedly send the same prompt content. A typical scenario: you're building a document analyzer that includes a 3,000-token document in every request. Five questions about that document means processing 15,000 tokens of...

A Bootiful Podcast: Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Weurthinger

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Weurthinger, recorded at Devoxx 2025!...

Introducing Share Consumer Support (Kafka Queues) in Spring for Apache Kafka

Continuing our Road to GA series, this week we're exploring Share Groups in Apache Kafka 4.0.0 and their integration in Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 - a feature that fundamentally expands how we can consume messages from Kafka topics. When we first start working with Kafka, the mental model is...

Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, this time sharing more details on the new Jackson 3 support, just a few days after Jackson 3.0.0 GA release, about to be introduced in Spring Boot 4 and related Spring portfolio projects. Jackson is by far the most used JSON library on the JVM, an...

This Week in Spring: September 30th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this I am about to board a flight for Colorado for the amazing Dev2Next conference! I'll be in Antwerp, Beglium for the amazing Devoxx event next week, and I'll be speaking at the Amsterdam JUG with James Ward on the Thursday after that, too! If you're around, be sure ...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb, live from SpringOne 2025

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary lead of Spring Cloud and friend to the community, Spencer Gibb! This was recorded live from Las Vegas, NV, at the fantastic SpringOne 2025 event!...

This Week in Spring - September 16th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra special installment of This Week in Spring , wherein we celebrate a very auspicious day indeed: the release of Java 25 and GraalVM 25! That's right: an incredible new iteration of the JVM has just dropped and with it come a ton of features! Let's go throu...

A Bootiful Podcast: Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the general manager of Tanzu, the legendary Purnima Padmanabhan, about AI, the power of the platform, and more. Recorded live from SpringOne 2025!...

This Week in Spring - September 2nd, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Frankfurt, awaiting my flight to the Java-tastic Javazone 2025 event where I'll be joined by the legendary James Ward to deliver an AI-focused look at the latest-and-greatest in Spring! And I'm still recovering from th...

This Week in Spring - August 26th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the floor of SpringOne, live from lovely Las Vegas! As you can imagine, I've got to get back into it, so we'll make this one a quick one. And if you're here, be sure to say "hi"! In last week's A Bootifu...

This Week in Spring - August 19th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra special installment of This Week in Spring - special because the next installment will be delivered from the floors of the Ventian where the extraordinairily awesome SpringOne 2025 event will take place! So, some poetry: T’was the Week Before SpringOne...

A Bootiful Podcast: IntelliJ IDEA lead Aleksey Stukalov

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to IntelliJ IDEA lead Aleksey Stukalov...

A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and legend Henri Tremblay

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Henri Tremblay, head of TS Imagine Canada, Java Champion, Montreal JUG leader, EasyMock lead dev and all around legend!...

A Bootiful Podcast: HTMX creator Carson Gross

Hi, Spring and HTML fans! Today I talk to hypermedia enjoyer Carson Gross, creator of the ever popular HTMX library which eschews a ton of the complexity associated with building client side applications...

Building Effective Agents with Spring AI (Part 1)

In a recent research publication: Building effective agents, Anthropic shared valuable insights about building effective Large Language Model LLM agents. What makes this research particularly interesting is its emphasis on simplicity and composability over complex frameworks. Let's explore how...

This Week in Spring - December 10th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in the southern hemisphere it's summer down here!, in Brisbane, waiting to board a plane for Sydney. It's been a ton of fun! I did a video looking at the latest-and-greatest in Spring Framework 6.2 - chec...

This Week in Spring - October 8th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium 2024 event! I am so happy to be back here, one of the best shows in the Java ecosystem! We've got a lot to get into so let's dive right in! From Spring Cloud Data Flow...

From Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.x to 3.0

Dear Spring Community, With the recent announcement of Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0, the Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the next major release, SCDF 3.0, to align with both Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0. This will bring the following SCDF ecosystem of...

A Bootiful Podcast: Digital Accessibility Architect, Java and Groovy legend, Scott Davis

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Java ecosystem legend Scott Davis...

A Bootiful Podcast: Cloud Native Cora Iberkleid on architecture, Spring Modulith, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In today’s episode, I talk to cloud native Cora Iberkleid about the awesome modular sensation that’s sweeping applications, Spring Modulith!...

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...

Spring Framework server Web DoS Vulnerability

In Spring Framework versions 6.0.15 and 6.1.2, it is possible for a user to provide specially crafted HTTP requests that may cause a denial-of-service DoS condition. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true: Typically, Spring Boot applications need the...

A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft’s Sean Li on Azure and Spring Boot

Hi, Spring fans! In this relatively quick installment, recorded live from the lovely Spring I/O 2023, Josh Long talks to Microsoft's Sean Li about some of the latest and greatest in the Azure ecosystem for Spring developers...

This Week in Spring - May 9th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonderful, fancyful installment of This Week in Spring! I was just at the first Devoxx GR, in the sunny mediterranean city of Athens, Greece. Uh, yah, this was a good'un. If you can get to it, you should. Don't miss next year's installment if you missed this on...

Spring Modulith 0.3 released

Hot on the heels of Spring Boot 3.0.2, I am excited to announce the 0.3 release of Spring Modulith. The release is packed with improvements. We have tweaked a couple of things that might require your attention and a couple of adapting changes to your code. The most notable changes are: GH-114 – W...

Interesting new filters on Spring Cloud Gateway 4.0

Spring Cloud Gateway 4.0 is finally here! Thanks to our community contributions we have introduced new features and interesting filters. This blog post details new noteworthy and explains some of the new filters included, how they work and how you can use it to provide more insights into your...

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...

Reactor Netty HTTP Server may log request headers

Reactor Netty HTTP Server, in versions 1.0.11 - 1.0.23, may log request headers in some cases of invalid HTTP requests. The logged headers may reveal valid access tokens to those with access to server logs. This may affect only invalid HTTP requests where logging at WARN level is enabled...

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...

This Week in Spring - April 5th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Im back home from the Hawaiin islands. Its so good to be home. First things first: theres a security vulnerability. Weve already released guidance on how to mitigate as well as new releases of Spring Framework and Spring Boot...

Spring Framework RCE via Data Binding on JDK 9+

A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9+ may be vulnerable to remote code execution RCE via data binding. The specific exploit requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment. If the application is deployed as a Spring Boot executable jar, i.e. the default, it is...

Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability

In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.16, 5.2.0 - 5.2.19, and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted SpEL expression that may cause a denial of service condition...

Spring Cloud Gateway Request Vulnerability

Applications using Spring Cloud Gateway are vulnerable to specifically crafted requests that could make an extra request on downstream services...

RFD Protection Bypass via jsessionid

In Spring Framework versions 5.2.0 - 5.2.8, 5.1.0 - 5.1.17, 5.0.0 - 5.0.18, 4.3.0 - 4.3.28, and older unsupported versions, the protections against RFD attacks from CVE-2015-5211 may be bypassed depending on the browser used through the use of a jsessionid path parameter...

Open Redirector in spring-security-oauth2

Spring Security OAuth, versions 2.3 prior to 2.3.5 , and 2.2 prior to 2.2.4 , and 2.1 prior to 2.1.4 , and 2.0 prior to 2.0.17 , and older unsupported versions could be susceptible to an open redirector attack that can leak an authorization code. A malicious user or attacker can craft a request t...

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...

Cross Site Tracing (XST) with Spring Framework

Spring Framework versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.7, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.18, and older unsupported versions allow web applications to change the HTTP request method to any HTTP method including TRACE using the HiddenHttpMethodFilter in Spring MVC. If an application has a pre-existing XSS...

Unsafe Unzip with spring-integration-zip

spring-integration-zip , versions prior to 1.0.1, exposes an arbitrary file write vulnerability, that can be achieved using a specially crafted zip archive affects other archives as well, bzip2, tar, xz, war, cpio, 7z, that holds path traversal filenames. So when the filename gets concatenated to...

Remote code execution in spring-amqp

In affected versions of Spring AMQP, a org.springframework.amqp.core.Message may be unsafely deserialized when being converted into a string. A malicious payload could be crafted to exploit this and enable a remote code execution attack...

Spring Data JPA Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability

Sort instances handed into user defined Spring Data repository query methods using manually declared JPQL queries are handed to the persistence provider as is and allow attackers to inject arbitrary JPQL into ORDER BY clauses which they might use to draw conclusions about non-exposed fields based...

Remote Code Execution in Spring AMQP

The class org.springframework.core.serializer.DefaultDeserializer does not validate the deserialized object against a whitelist. By supplying a crafted serialized object like Chris Frohoff's Commons Collection gadget, remote code execution can be achieved...

Spring Social CSRF

When authorizing an application against an OAuth 2 API provider, Spring Social is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF attack. The attack involves a malicious user beginning an OAuth 2 authorization flow using a fake account with an OAuth 2 API provider, but completing it by tricking t...

DoS Attack with XML Input

XML external entities were previously disabled with the publication of http://pivotal.io/security/cve-2013-6429 . If DTD is not entirely disabled, inline DTD declarations can be used to perform Denial of Service attacks known as XML bombs. Such declarations are both well-formed and valid accordin...

Incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7315 / CVE-2013-6429 (XXE)

Spring MVC's Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter also processed user provided XML and neither disabled XML external entities nor provided an option to disable them. Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter has been modified to provide an option to control the processing of XML external entities and...

Possible XSS when using Spring MVC

The JavaScriptUtils.javaScriptEscape method did not escape all characters that are sensitive within either a JS single quoted string, JS double quoted string, or HTML script data context. In most cases this will result in an unexploitable parse error but in some cases it could result in an XSS...

XML External Entity (XXE) injection in Spring Framework

It was identified that Spring MVC processed user provided XML with JAXB in combination with a StAX XMLInputFactory without disabling external entity resolution. External entity resolution has been disabled in this case. It was subsequently discovered that this fix was incomplete CVE-2013-6429,...

XML eXternal Entity (XXE) injection in Spring Framework

The Spring OXM wrapper did not expose any property for disabling entity resolution when using the JAXB unmarshaller. There are four possible source implementations passed to the unmarshaller: DOMSource, StAXSource, SAXSource and StreamSource. For a DOMSource, the XML has already been parsed by us...

Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E16 - May Release Train Shift & What's Coming in Spring Boot 4.1

Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun break down the recently announced shift of the May release train from May 11-22 to June 1-5, and what that means for your upgrade planning across the Spring portfolio. They also dig...

Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 6): AutoMemoryTools — Persistent Agent Memory Across Sessions

File-Based Long-Term Memory for Spring AI Agents Agents are only as useful as what they remember. Spring AI's Chat Memory stores the full conversation and can persist it across restarts, but when the window fills, the oldest messages are evicted. The upcoming Session API will add recursive...