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CVE-2026-22731

Authentication Bypass under Actuator Health groups paths

Published: Mar 19, 2026Updated: Apr 16, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-288
8.2HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 74.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Spring Boot applications with Actuator can be vulnerable to an "Authentication Bypass" vulnerability when an application endpoint that requires authentication is declared under a specific path, already configured for a Health Group additional path. This issue affects Spring Boot: from 4.0 before 4.0.3, from 3.5 before 3.5.11, from 3.4 before 3.4.15. This CVE is similar but not equivalent to CVE-2026-22733, as the conditions for exploit and vulnerable versions are different.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-288CWE-306

Affected Products

Spring
oss-projectaka spring framework, spring boot, spring security
Spring Boot
OSS Libraries
vmware
commercial·USaka vmware inc
spring bootLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22731
spring.io

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