CVE-2026-22738

CRITICAL9.8

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

Published Mar 27, 2026

Modified 1 months ago

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.

References

WEB

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

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22738

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

HighC:H

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

HighA:H

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

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedMar 27, 2026

ModifiedMar 28, 2026