CVE-2026-22750 SSL bundle configuration silently bypassed in Spring Cloud Gateway

What is CVE-2026-22750?

CVE-2026-22750 is a high-severity vulnerability in VMware Spring Cloud Gateway, published on 10 Apr 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

When configuring SSL bundles in Spring Cloud Gateway by using the configuration property spring.ssl.bundle, the configuration was silently ignored and the default SSL configuration was used instead. Note: The 4.2.x branch is no longer under open source support. If you are using Spring Cloud Gateway 4.2.0 and are not an enterprise customer, you can upgrade to any Spring Cloud Gateway 4.2.x release newer than 4.2.0  available on Maven Centeral https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/cloud/spring-cloud-gateway/ . Ideally if you are not an enterprise customer, you should be upgrading to 5.0.2 or 5.1.1 which are the current supported open source releases.

Weakness: CWE-15

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-22750?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-gateway. It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Spring Cloud Gateway.

How do I fix CVE-2026-22750?

Upgrade org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-gateway to 4.2.1 or later.

Is CVE-2026-22750 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-22750 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in VMware Spring Cloud Gateway

• CVE-2026-47825 Spring Cloud Gateway Server Forwards Headers from Untrusted Proxies in certain situations High 8.6
• CVE-2026-47879 Spring Cloud Gateway SSRF and native file access with gRPC High 7.7
• CVE-2021-22051 Request injection in Spring Cloud Gateway Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hwqh-2684-54fc.