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Security support for end-of-life Spring Framework

Free support for Spring Framework 5.3 ended on 31 August 2024; since then, fixes go only to customers of the commercial support. These are the last open-source releases of 4.3, 5.2 and 5.3, with every vulnerability the US National Vulnerability Database lists for them.

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Spring Framework versions past open-source support

Spring FrameworkReleaseOpen-source support endedKnown CVEsCriticalExploitedForkward
4.3.30Last Spring Framework 4.3 release31 December 20202351Patch on order, 48 h
5.2.25Last Spring Framework 5.2 release31 December 20212050Patch on order, 48 h
5.3.39Last Spring Framework 5.3 release31 August 20243760Patch on order, 48 h

Vulnerabilities from the US National Vulnerability Database, 28 October 2026, for the upstream version, counting only entries where Spring Framework itself is the vulnerable product. Exploited: listed in the CISA catalogue of known exploited vulnerabilities. Your assessment shows which of them are real on your systems.

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Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Apache Tomcat and Log4j: the versions past end of life and what affects them. All Java libraries

Patch on order, 48 h

We backport the fix to the version you run within 48 hours of your order, or within 24 hours with priority delivery. See the plans