CVE-2026-22745 : Denial of service in static resource handling on Windows platforms

Description

Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks when resolving static resources. More precisely, an application can be vulnerable when all the following are true: * the application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux * the application is serving static resources from the file system * the application is running on a Windows platform When all the conditions above are met, the attacker can send malicious requests that are slow to resolve and that can keep HTTP connections in use. This can cause a Denial of Service on the application.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.

Weakness

• CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs

Affected products

• VMware · Spring Framework

  • affected 7.0.0 – < 7.0.7
  • affected 6.2.0 – < 6.2.18
  • affected 6.1.0 – < 6.1.27
  • affected 5.3.0 – < 5.3.48

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.springframework:spring-webfluxGHSA-6p4f-wcwh-5vvm (opens in a new tab)
• Mavenorg.springframework:spring-webmvcGHSA-6p4f-wcwh-5vvm (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22745 (opens in a new tab)
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?vector=AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L&version=3.1 (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-6p4f-wcwh-5vvm (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 29 Apr 2026, 13:23 UTC.