Applications that evaluate user-supplied Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack when the power operator (^) is used with a BigDecimal or BigInteger operand and a large exponent value. Spring Framework 7.0.0 - 7.0.8 Spring Framework 6.2.0 - 6.2.19 Spring Framework 6.1.0 - 6.1.28 Spring Framework 6.0.0 - 6.0.30 Spring Framework 5.3.0 - 5.3.49 Spring Framework 5.2.25.RELEASE and earlier
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Weaknesses CWE-716

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Weaknesses CWE-400
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Spring
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Vendors & Products Spring
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Weaknesses CWE-716

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Description Applications that evaluate user-supplied Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack when the power operator (^) is used with a BigDecimal or BigInteger operand and a large exponent value. Spring Framework 7.0.0 - 7.0.8 Spring Framework 6.2.0 - 6.2.19 Spring Framework 6.1.0 - 6.1.28 Spring Framework 6.0.0 - 6.0.30 Spring Framework 5.3.0 - 5.3.49 Spring Framework 5.2.25.RELEASE and earlier
Title Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded Exponentiation in SpEL Expressions
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2026-08-27T05:21:34.631Z

Updated: 2026-08-27T15:00:12.222Z

Reserved: 2026-05-20T10:01:00.477Z

Link: CVE-2026-47886

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-27T15:00:06.566Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-08-27T06:17:19.053

Modified: 2026-08-28T18:47:30.163

Link: CVE-2026-47886

cve-icon Redhat

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