Spring Boot Security Update Patches Critical Authentication Bypass and RCE Flaws

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Summary

Spring Boot reports three vulnerabilities, including a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2026-40976) and flaws allowing session hijacking or remote code execution via timing attacks.

Take Action:

If you use Spring Boot, upgrade ASAP to a patched version (4.0.6, 3.5.14, 3.4.16, 3.3.19, or 2.7.33). Until patched, restrict access to your applications from trusted networks only and disable DevTools and Actuator endpoints in production.

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