CVE-2026-22738

criticalpriority · track · 10EPSS 0.011 · 66 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · PoC

Likely / severe?

1.11% (66th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security@vmware.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19.3criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-917USprimaryCWE-88USCWE-88USCWE-917USCWE-94US

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

n0n4m3x41/CVE-2026-22738-POCPoC for CVE-2026-22738PoC · poc_in_github
rockmelodies/CVE-2026-22738SpEL Injection via Unescaped Filter Key in SimpleVectorStore Leads to Remote Code ExecutionPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Spring Spring AI1.0.0 → 1.0.5enisa_euvdEU
Spring Spring AI1.1.0 → 1.1.4enisa_euvdEU
vmware spring ai1.0.0 → 1.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_ai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware spring ai1.1.0 → 1.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_ai:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-vector-store1.0.0 → 1.0.5osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ai/spring-ai-vector-store
Maven org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-vector-store1.1.0-M1 → 1.1.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ai/spring-ai-vector-store

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-fvh3-672c-7p6cSpring AI: SpEL injection is triggered when a user-supplied value is used as a filter expression key2026-03-27ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-03-27modified 2026-10-26

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references (3)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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