Bug 2486715 (CVE-2026-41007)

Summary: CVE-2026-41007 spring-hateoas: Spring HATEOAS: Denial of Service via unbounded static cache
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A flaw was found in Spring HATEOAS. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying specially crafted strings, which are then used as keys in an unbounded static cache. This can lead to resource exhaustion, causing a denial of service (DoS) for the application.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-09 05:02:09 UTC 
Spring HATEOAS maintains an unbounded static cache of StringLinkRelation instances keyed on attacker-supplied strings.

Affected versions:
Spring HATEOAS 1.5.0 through 1.5.6; 2.3.0 through 2.3.4; 2.4.0 through 2.4.1; 2.5.0 through 2.5.2; 3.0.0 through 3.0.3.