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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2026-22738

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

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Spring Spring AI

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.0.0 to < 1.0.5affected
  • 1.1.0 to < 1.1.4affected

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