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
vmware: spring ai
References1
- spring.io/security/cve-2026-22738 Vendor Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.8
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 66 · as of 12 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-917CWE-88
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