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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "vmware",
        "dateReserved": "2026-07-04T18:13:09.973Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-08-27T05:20:36.841Z",
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            "title": "In Spring for Apache Kafka, SSRF via DNS resolution triggered by untrusted java.net types in header mapper default trusted packages",
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                            "description": "CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)",
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                    "url": "https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-59278"
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                        "baseScore": 6.5,
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