CVE-2026-41007: Spring HATEOAS heap exhaustion through unbounded internal caching
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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.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-439x-6767-44cv
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/commit/668fd3282e1c7ffc817499b4b3d85d3aa21c0c2e
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/commit/6b6622c92fd06d028a1d4522addf0e214c079f29
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/commit/b0a408f4b372b5287e23ec00260808958953496c
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/2514
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/2518
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/2519
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/releases/tag/2.5.3
- github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/releases/tag/3.0.4
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41007
- spring.io/security/cve-2026-41007
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