{"id":"CVE-2026-22738","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-22738","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:35:46.106Z","title":"In Spring AI, a SpEL injection vulnerability exists in SimpleVectorStore when a user-supplied value is used as a filter expression key.","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.\nThis issue affects Spring AI: from 1.0.0 before 1.0.5, from 1.1.0 before 1.1.4.","published":"2026-03-27T06:16:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-26T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@vmware.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-917","CWE-88"],"affected":["vmware/spring ai"],"epss":{"score":0.01107,"percentile":0.65662,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.11%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22738","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@vmware.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22738","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}