CVE-2026-40970_CVE-2026-40970

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MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-40970

Source vmware

Published Apr 27, 2026 at 19:09

Affected Product

Vendor Spring

Product Spring Boot

Version 4.0.0

Affected Versions Spring Spring Boot 4.0.0

CWE Classification

CWE-295

References

spring.io /security/cve-2026-40970

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