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AIKIDO-2026-10584

spring-boot-cassandra is vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation

Improper Certificate ValidationCVE-2026-40974 Published Apr 27, 2026

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Medium Risk

This Affects:

JAVAspring-boot-cassandra
2.7.0 - 3.5.13
Fixed in 3.5.14
4.0.0 - 4.0.5
Fixed in 4.0.6
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TL;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-cassandra 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-cassandra library to the patch version.

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