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Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-22729

VMware Spring AI

CVE-2026-22729: JSONPath Injection in Spring AI Vector Stores FilterExpressionConverter

CVSS 3.1
8.6High

Official description

A JSONPath injection vulnerability in Spring AI's AbstractFilterExpressionConverter allows authenticated users to bypass metadata-based access controls through crafted filter expressions. User-controlled input passed to FilterExpressionBuilder is concatenated into JSONPath queries without proper escaping, enabling attackers to inject arbitrary JSONPath logic and access unauthorized documents. This vulnerability affects applications using vector stores that extend AbstractFilterExpressionConverter for multi-tenant isolation, role-based access control, or document filtering based on metadata. The vulnerability occurs when user-supplied values in filter expressions are not escaped before being inserted into JSONPath queries. Special characters like ", ||, and && are passed through unescaped, allowing injection of arbitrary JSONPath logic that can alter the intended query semantics.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.6High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (vmware) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
VMware Spring AI 1.0.x ≤ v < 1.0.4 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
VMware Spring AI 1.1.x ≤ v < 1.1.3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-03-18
Last updated
2026-03-18
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
vmware

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.55%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
46.4%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-917
    Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement ('Expression Language Injection')