Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.springframework:spring-web package, versions [6.1.0, 7.0.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORK-19267077
  • published26 Aug 2026
  • disclosed20 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-47885  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 7.0.9 or higher.

Overview

org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the PartEventHttpMessageReader file when maxInMemorySize is set to -1. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by uploading large multipart requests.

Note: This is only exploitable if the configuration explicitly sets maxInMemorySize to -1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1