Spring AI: SpEL injection is triggered when a user-supplied value is used as a filter expression key

GHSA-fvh3-672c-7p6c · CVE-2026-22738

Published Mar 27, 2026 · Modified May 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.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22738
WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/commit/ba9220b22383e430d5f801ce8e4fa01cf9e75f29
PACKAGE https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai
WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/releases/tag/v1.0.5
WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/releases/tag/v1.1.4
WEB https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22738

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