diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpoint.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpoint.java
index 5708afba84a..503e667f72a 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpoint.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpoint.java
@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
 
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHints;
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHintsRegistrar;
 import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.OperationResponseBody;
 import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.annotation.Endpoint;
 import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.annotation.ReadOperation;
 import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.annotation.Selector;
+import org.springframework.boot.actuate.sbom.SbomEndpoint.SbomEndpointRuntimeHints;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportRuntimeHints;
 import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
@@ -38,6 +42,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * @since 3.3.0
  */
 @Endpoint(id = "sbom")
+@ImportRuntimeHints(SbomEndpointRuntimeHints.class)
 public class SbomEndpoint {
 
 	private static final List<String> DEFAULT_APPLICATION_SBOM_LOCATIONS = List.of("classpath:META-INF/sbom/bom.json",
@@ -141,4 +146,19 @@ public class SbomEndpoint {
 		}
 	}
 
+	static class SbomEndpointRuntimeHints implements RuntimeHintsRegistrar {
+
+		@Override
+		public void registerHints(RuntimeHints hints, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+			for (String defaultLocation : DEFAULT_APPLICATION_SBOM_LOCATIONS) {
+				hints.resources().registerPattern(stripClasspathPrefix(defaultLocation));
+			}
+		}
+
+		private String stripClasspathPrefix(String location) {
+			return location.substring("classpath:".length());
+		}
+
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpointTests.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpointTests.java
index 21db6474c2b..f4c724d6903 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpointTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/sbom/SbomEndpointTests.java
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHints;
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.predicate.RuntimeHintsPredicates;
+import org.springframework.boot.actuate.sbom.SbomEndpoint.SbomEndpointRuntimeHints;
 import org.springframework.boot.actuate.sbom.SbomEndpoint.Sboms;
 import org.springframework.boot.actuate.sbom.SbomProperties.Sbom;
 import org.springframework.context.support.GenericApplicationContext;
@@ -81,6 +84,14 @@ class SbomEndpointTests {
 		assertThat(createEndpoint().sbom("application")).isNull();
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	void shouldRegisterHints() {
+		RuntimeHints hints = new RuntimeHints();
+		new SbomEndpointRuntimeHints().registerHints(hints, getClass().getClassLoader());
+		assertThat(RuntimeHintsPredicates.resource().forResource("META-INF/sbom/bom.json")).accepts(hints);
+		assertThat(RuntimeHintsPredicates.resource().forResource("META-INF/sbom/application.cdx.json")).accepts(hints);
+	}
+
 	private Sbom sbom(String location) {
 		Sbom result = new Sbom();
 		result.setLocation(location);