Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-40974
Spring Boot's Cassandra auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when establishing an SSL connection to Cassandra.
Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5 (fix 4.0.6), 3.5.0–3.5.13 (fix 3.5.14), 3.4.0–3.4.15 (fix 3.4.16), 3.3.0–3.3.18 (fix 3.3.19), 2.7.0–2.7.32 (fix 2.7.33); Cassandra SSL auto-configuration. Versions that are no longer supported are also affected per vendor advisory.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 24.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.0
Products affected by CVE-2026-40974
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.10
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.11
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.12
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.13
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.14
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.32
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.8
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:2.7.9
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.10
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.11
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.12
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.13
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.18
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.8
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.3.9
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.10
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.11
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.12
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.13
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.15
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.8
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.4.9
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.10
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.11
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.12
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.13
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.8
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:3.5.9
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:4.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:4.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:4.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:4.0.5