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CVE-2026-93879

Hibernate Validator is affected by an expression language injection vulnerability

No exploitation reported by the sources we read.

  • Published2026-11-08
  • WeaknessCWE-400

Am I affected?

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Description

Hibernate Validator could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption resulting from improper escaping of user-controlled data in Expression Language (EL) expressions.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2026-11-0818:47CVE publishedCNA

Versions per branch

Products declared by the CNA

As ibm, the CNA that assigned this CVE, declared them in the CVE record; versions as written. NVD lists no product for this CVE yet: this is the only product data so far.

  • IBM Hibernate Validator
    Affected
    • ≥ 5.4.1.Final, ≤ 6.2.5.Finalno fix statedsemver
    • ≥ 7.0.0.Alpha1, ≤ 7.0.5.Finalno fix statedsemver
    • ≥ 8.0.0.Alpha1, ≤ 8.0.5.Finalno fix statedsemver
    • ≥ 9.0.0.Beta2, ≤ 9.0.1.Finalno fix statedsemver
    • ≥ 9.1.0.Alpha1, ≤ 9.1.4.Finalno fix statedsemver

Source: the CNA record (CVE Program), © The MITRE Corporation,CVE Terms of UseCVE recordupdated 2026-11-08

Neither OSV.dev nor the vendor advisories we read list affected versions for CVE-2026-93879 yet.

Full record on NVD

Fix

No fix published by the sources we read yet. NVD record

Detection

Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Metasploit modules
none listed
Metasploit Framework

Sources

  • CNACVSS 3.17.52026-11-08
  • NVDCVSS 3.17.5read 2026-11-08
  • CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-4002026-11-08
  • NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-400read 2026-11-08

Identifiers

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
2026-11-08
Last Modified
2026-11-08
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-93879?

Hibernate Validator could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption resulting from improper escaping of user-controlled data in Expression Language (EL) expressions.

Is CVE-2026-93879 actively exploited?

Active exploitation of CVE-2026-93879 has not been confirmed.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2026-93879?

CVE-2026-93879 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

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