VMware Spring AMQP up to 2.4.18/3.2.12/4.0.4/4.1.0 Decompression data amplification

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in VMware Spring AMQP up to 2.4.18/3.2.12/4.0.4/4.1.0 and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Decompression. Such manipulation leads to data amplification. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-47860. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in VMware Spring AMQP up to 2.4.18/3.2.12/4.0.4/4.1.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Decompression. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a data amplification vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-409. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

An attacker who can publish to a queue consumed by an application that has enabled message decompression can crash the consumer JVM with a single ~1 MB message. Spring AMQP 4.1.0 Spring AMQP 4.0.0 - 4.0.4 Spring AMQP 3.2.0 - 3.2.12 Spring AMQP 2.4.18 and earlier

The advisory is available at spring.io. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-47860 since 05/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/27/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-66826). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• VMware

Name

• Spring AMQP

Version

• 2.4.0
• 2.4.1
• 2.4.2
• 2.4.3
• 2.4.4
• 2.4.5
• 2.4.6
• 2.4.7
• 2.4.8
• 2.4.9
• 2.4.10
• 2.4.11
• 2.4.12
• 2.4.13
• 2.4.14
• 2.4.15
• 2.4.16
• 2.4.17
• 2.4.18
• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.2.7
• 3.2.8
• 3.2.9
• 3.2.10
• 3.2.11
• 3.2.12
• 4.0
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.1.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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