CVE-2026-40974: Spring Boot's Cassandra auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when establishing an SSL connection to Cassandra. Affected: Spring Boot…

PriorityP353critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.18%

7.9th percentile

Spring Boot's Cassandra auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when establishing an SSL connection to Cassandra. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5 (fix 4.0.6), 3.5.0–3.5.13 (fix 3.5.14), 3.4.0–3.4.15 (fix 3.4.16), 3.3.0–3.3.18 (fix 3.3.19), 2.7.0–2.7.32 (fix 2.7.33); Cassandra SSL auto-configuration. Versions that are no longer supported are also affected per vendor advisory.

Affected

14 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	log4j	—	—
devspaces	openvsx-rhel9	—	—
devspaces	pluginregistry-rhel9	—	—
log4j_2	log4j	—	—
spring	spring_boot	>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.33	2.7.33
spring	spring_boot	>= 3.3.0 < 3.3.19	3.3.19
spring	spring_boot	>= 3.4.0 < 3.4.16	3.4.16
spring	spring_boot	>= 3.5.0 < 3.5.14	3.5.14
spring	spring_boot	>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.6	4.0.6
vmware	spring_boot	>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.33	2.7.33
vmware	spring_boot	>= 3.3.0 < 3.3.19	3.3.19
vmware	spring_boot	>= 3.4.0 < 3.4.16	3.4.16
vmware	spring_boot	>= 3.5.0 < 3.5.14	3.5.14
vmware	spring_boot	>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.6	4.0.6

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM

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