CVE-2026-40972
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Spring Boot DevTools remote secret comparison is vulnerable to timing attacks
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
73%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >=4.0.0,<4.0.6 | 4.0.6 |
| Maven | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >=3.5.0,<3.5.14 | 3.5.14 |
| Maven | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >=3.4.0,<=3.4.15 | |
| Maven | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >=3.3.0,<=3.3.18 | |
| Maven | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | <=2.7.32 | |
| MAVEN | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | <= 2.7.32 | |
| MAVEN | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >= 3.3.0, <= 3.3.18 | |
| MAVEN | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >= 3.4.0, <= 3.4.15 | |
| MAVEN | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >= 3.5.0, < 3.5.14 | 3.5.14 |
| MAVEN | org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools | >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.6 | 4.0.6 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | spring_boot | {"endExcluding":"2.7.33"} | 2.7.33 |
References
CWEs
CWE-208
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.