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GHSA-FVH3-672C-7P6C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-27 06:31 – Updated: 2026-05-13 13:44

Summary

Spring AI: SpEL injection is triggered when a user-supplied value is used as a filter expression key

Details

In Spring AI, a SpEL injection vulnerability exists in SimpleVectorStore when a user-supplied value is used as a filter expression key. A malicious actor could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. Only applications that use SimpleVectorStore and pass user-supplied input as a filter expression key are affected.

This issue affects Spring AI: from 1.0.0 before 1.0.5, from 1.1.0 before 1.1.4.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-22738 (GCVE-0-2026-22738)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-27 05:21 – Updated: 2026-05-10 13:04

Title

SpEL Injection via Unescaped Filter Key in SimpleVectorStore Leads to Remote Code Execution

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-28 03:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Assigner

vmware CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 254 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22738

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Spring	Spring AI	Affected: 1.0.0 , < 1.0.5 (custom) Affected: 1.1.0 , < 1.1.4 (custom)

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