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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-47881 EUVD-2026-66844GHSA-jv7x-jjj5-pqwg

Denial of Service in Spring Batch FlatFileItemReader via Malformed Input File

Published Aug 27, 2026 · Updated Aug 27, 2026 · Assigned by vmware

Description

Spring Batch's FlatFileItemReader supports files where a single logical record spans multiple physical lines — for example, a CSV field that contains embedded newlines wrapped in quotes. A specially crafted input file could exploit the way the reader assembles those multi-line records to consume excessive CPU time and memory, causing the batch job to stall or run out of memory.
Spring Batch 6.0.0 - 6.0.4
Spring Batch 5.2.0 - 5.2.6
Spring Batch 4.3.0 - 4.3.13

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Spring Spring Batch 6.0.0 – ≤ 6.0.4, 5.2.0 – ≤ 5.2.6, 4.3.0 – ≤ 4.3.13 —

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