CVE-2026-22738
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.06%Spring AI: SpEL injection is triggered when a user-supplied value is used as a filter expression key
Published: 3/27/2026Modified: 5/13/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Maven/org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-vector-store>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22738
- PATCHhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/commit/ba9220b22383e430d5f801ce8e4fa01cf9e75f29
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/releases/tag/v1.0.5
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/releases/tag/v1.1.4
- WEBhttps://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22738