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FKIE_CVE-2026-22738

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-27 06:16 - Updated: 2026-03-30 13:26

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

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.

References

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-27 05:21 – Updated: 2026-03-28 03:55

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

Assigner

vmware

References

URL

Tags

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

Impacted products

	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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