---
id: CVE-2026-41848
title: >-
  Applications may be vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service
  (ReDoS) attack if an attacker is able to provide a pattern which is then
  directly or indirectly supplied to one of the following methods in
  AntPathMatcher: match(St…
summary: >-
  Applications may be vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service
  (ReDoS) attack if an attacker is able to provide a pattern which is then
  directly or indirectly supplied to one of the following methods in
  AntPathMatcher: match(St…
severity: low
cvss: 3.7
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'
cwe:
  - CWE-1333
vendor: vmware
product: spring_framework
affected:
  - 'spring_framework >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.49'
  - 'spring_framework >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.28'
  - 'spring_framework >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.18.1'
  - 'spring_framework >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.7.1'
patched:
  - spring_framework 7.0.7.1
published: '2026-06-09'
updated: '2026-07-17'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41848'
references:
  - url: 'https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41848'
    label: security@vmware.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00317
epssPercentile: 0.24828
ingestedAt: '2026-07-17T21:16:23.846Z'
---

## Overview

Applications may be vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack if an attacker is able to provide a pattern which is then directly or indirectly supplied to one of the following methods in AntPathMatcher: match(String pattern, String path), matchStart(String pattern, String path), extractUriTemplateVariables(String pattern, String path).

Affected versions:
Spring Framework 7.0.0 through 7.0.7; 6.2.0 through 6.2.18; 6.1.0 through 6.1.27; 5.3.0 through 5.3.48.

## Affected

- `spring_framework >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.49`
- `spring_framework >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.28`
- `spring_framework >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.18.1`
- `spring_framework >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.7.1`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `spring_framework 7.0.7.1`