Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-41863

MediumUpdated

Published: 25 May 2026

Published
25 May 2026
Modified
01 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0040 31.6th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-41863 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Vmware Spring Ai. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 31.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as NLP and Transformers; in the LLM/Generative AI Risks risk domain.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Spring AI's support for Anthropic's Skills API used LLM-influenced filenames unsanitized in Path.resolve before writing files to disk. This could allow a malicious user to write files outside the intended target directory, including restricted directories. Affected versions: Spring AI: 1.1.0…

more

through 1.1.x

CWE(s)
CWE-22

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
NLP and Transformers
Risk Domain
LLM/Generative AI Risks
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: ai, anthropic, llm

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.
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Why these techniques?

Path traversal (CWE-22) in a server-side API allows arbitrary file writes, directly enabling exploitation of public-facing apps (T1190) and placement of web shells (T1100).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

vmware
spring ai
1.1.0 — 1.1.7

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References