Spring Boot : Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2026-40974
Spring Boots Cassandra auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when establishing an SSL connection to Cassandra. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.04.0.5 (fix 4.0.6) 3.5.03.5.13 (fix 3.5.14) 3.4.03.4.15 (fix 3.4.16) 3.3.03.3.18 (fix 3.3.19) 2.7.02.7.32 (fix 2.7.33) Cassandra SSL auto-configuration. Versions that are no longer supported are also affected per vendor advisory.