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.
- Affected products
- Apache Cassandra, Spring Boot
- Vmware Spring Boot
- < 2.7.33, 3.3.19, 3.4.16, 3.5.14, 4.0.6
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- EPSS
- 0.2% (8th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-295
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-27
CVE-2026-40974 at NVD
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