CVE-2026-22738
Spring AI: SpEL injection is triggered when a user-supplied value is used as a filter expression key
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.82%
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.
How to fix CVE-2026-22738
To remediate CVE-2026-22738, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.0.5 or later
Is CVE-2026-22738 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 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 |