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Critical · 9.1 Public exploit CVE-2026-22732 EUVD-2026-13347GHSA-mf92-479x-3373

Under Some Conditions Spring Security HTTP Headers Are not Written

Published Mar 19, 2026 · Updated Apr 2, 2026 · Assigned by vmware

Description

When applications specify HTTP response headers for servlet applications using Spring Security, there is the possibility that the HTTP Headers will not be written. 
This issue affects Spring Security Servlet applications using lazy (default) writing of HTTP Headers:

: from 5.7.0 through 5.7.21, from 5.8.0 through 5.8.23, from 6.3.0 through 6.3.14, from 6.4.0 through 6.4.14, from 6.5.0 through 6.5.8, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
VMware Spring Security 5.7.0 – ≤ 5.7.21, 5.8.0 – ≤ 5.8.23, 6.3.0 – ≤ 6.3.14, 6.4.0 – ≤ 6.4.14, 6.5.0 – ≤ 6.5.8, 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.0.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling apache-nifi 2.8.0-r5 —
Wolfi rolling apache-nifi-registry +1 2.8.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling jenkins-2-openjdk-21 +1 2.555-r3 —
Wolfi rolling thingsboard-tb-node 4.3.1.1-r0 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 3 repositories

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Affected packages

Advisories 7

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