- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Applications that configure the WebFlowELExpressionParser are vulnerable to the use of malicious Unified EL expressions. Affected versions: Spring Web Flow 4.0.0; 3.0.0 through 3.0.1; 2.5.0 through 2.5.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Published
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.1
- affected 3.0.0 – < 3.0.1.1
- affected 2.5.0 – < 2.5.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework.webflow:spring-webflowGHSA-9ggw-87m9-9gfc (opens in a new tab)
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-36200 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9ggw-87m9-9gfc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-40985)Record last updated .