Spring Framework Denial of Service via Unbounded List Growth in Data Binding

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• vmware spring frameworkbefore 5.2.26
• vmware spring framework5.3.0 and later · before 5.3.50
• vmware spring framework6.0.0 and later · before 6.0.31
• vmware spring framework6.1.0 and later · before 6.1.29
• vmware spring framework6.2.0 and later · before 6.2.20
• vmware spring framework7.0.0 and later · before 7.0.8.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (vmware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Spring Spring Framework

  • 7.0.0 and later · up to and including 7.0.8affected
  • 6.2.0 and later · up to and including 6.2.19affected
  • 6.1.0 and later · up to and including 6.1.28affected
  • 6.0.0 and later · up to and including 6.0.30affected
  • 5.3.0 and later · up to and including 5.3.49affected
  • up to and including 5.2.25.RELEASEaffected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2022-22965A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9+ may be vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via data binding.KEV
  99Now
• CVE-2018-1270Spring Framework, versions 5.0 prior to 5.0.5 and versions 4.3 prior to 4.3.15 and older unsupported versions, allow applications to expose
  62This week
• CVE-2020-5398RFD Attack via "Content-Disposition" Header Sourced from Request Input by Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux Application
  57Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2026-59280Aug 27, 2026 · Spring Framework Path Traversal via Backslash in SpringTemplateLoader
  17Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2026-59281Aug 27, 2026 · Spring Framework Cross-site Scripting via EscapedErrors
  24Monitor
• Later →CVE-2026-59283Aug 27, 2026 · Spring Framework Safety Guard Bypass via SpEL Expression Compilation
  36Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.