CVE-2026-40966
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 14 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
In Spring AI, an attacker can bypass conversation isolation and exfiltrate sensitive memory from other users’ chat histories, including secrets and credentials, by injecting filter logic through conversationId. Only applications that use VectorStoreChatMemoryAdvisor and pass user-supplied input as a conversationId are affected.
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affected products (6)
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- Maven org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-advisors-vector-store1.0.0 → 1.0.6osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ai/spring-ai-advisors-vector-store
- Maven org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-advisors-vector-store1.1.0 → 1.1.5osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ai/spring-ai-advisors-vector-store
advisories (1)
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- GHSA-v6x6-pjxw-3pv2Spring AI's VectorStoreChatMemoryAdvisor conversation scoping can lead to cross-tenant memory exfiltration2026-04-28ghsa · osvUS
In Spring AI, an attacker can bypass conversation isolation and exfiltrate sensitive memory from other users’ chat histories, including secrets and credentials, by injecting filter logic through conversationId. Only applications that use VectorStoreChatMemoryAdvisor and pass user-supplied input as a conversationId are affected.
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references (6)
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- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40966cnnvd
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40966Patchcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?version=3.1&vector=AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nenisa_euvd
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40966enisa_euvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?version=3.1&vector=AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NUS Government Resourcenvd
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40966Vendor Advisorynvd
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