AIKIDO-2026-10584
spring-boot is vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation
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Medium Risk
This Affects:
spring-bootTL;DR
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to improper validation of certificate hostnames in Cassandra auto-configuration, causing TLS connections to trust certificates without verifying they match the intended Cassandra server hostname. This can enable machine-in-the-middle attacks against Cassandra traffic.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if using a vulnerable version and you are connecting to a Cassandra database.
Background info
spring-boot is vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation in versions 2.7.0 - 3.5.13 and 4.0.0 - 4.0.5.
How to fix this
Upgrade the org.springframework.boot:spring-boot library to the patch version.
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