Medium [CVE-2026-40980] In Spring AI, a malicious PDF file can be crafted that triggers the allocation of unreasonable amounts of memory
This medium-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-40980.
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Summary
In Spring AI, a malicious PDF file can be crafted that triggers the allocation of unreasonable amounts of memory when handled by `ForkPDFLayoutTextStripper`.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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- 1.0.0
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
- 1.1.0
- 1.1.4
- 1.1.5
NVD record · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 1.0.0, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.1.0, 1.1.4, 1.1.5. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
NVD record · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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