CVE-2026-40970

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 49/100
Published: 2026-04-27 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Adjacent No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Adjacent
AC: High
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: None

Description

When configured to use an SSL bundle, Spring Boot's Elasticsearch auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when connecting to the Elasticsearch server. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5; upgrade to 4.0.6 or later per vendor advisory.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
vmware spring_boot 4.0.0 – 4.0.6

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

49 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.14%
Raw Score 0.001360
Percentile 3.0%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00136
2026-10-28
0.00136

Intelligence Sources

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