What is CVE-2026-40980?

CVE-2026-40980 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Ai, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-04-28.

How severe is CVE-2026-40980?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Spring Ai

CVE-2026-40980

In Spring AI, a malicious PDF file can be crafted that triggers the allocation of unreasonable amounts of memory when handled by `ForkPDFLayoutTextStripper`. Affected versions: Spring AI: 1.0.0 - 1.0.5 (fixed in 1.0.6), 1.1.0 - 1.1.4 (fix…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.001 (21.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Spring Ai — versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0
Vmware Spring_ai

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

security@vmware.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-40980?: CVE-2026-40980 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Ai, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-04-28.
How severe is CVE-2026-40980?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.