Vulnerability · CVE-2026-22729
A JSONPath injection vulnerability in Spring AI's AbstractFilterExpressionConverter allows authenticated users to bypass metadata-based access controls through crafted…
Published Mar 18, 2026 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2026 · spring ai
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No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-22729. EPSS is 0.54%. Act only if a listed version of spring ai is installed.
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- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- High8.6
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.54%
- Remediation
- Advisory link
- Affected products
- cpe vmware/spring ai
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.
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- cpe vmware/spring aiversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2026-22729
Recommended remediation
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Official advisories
What to do
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Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-22729. EPSS is 0.54%. Act only if a listed version of spring ai is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Affected version ranges are not on this record. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
CWE-917: Expression Language Injection. EPSS 0.54%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
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Timeline
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Mar 18, 2026 · NIST NVD
Detected
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
Jun 17, 2026 · NIST NVD
Updated
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
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-22729
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-22729
30-day exploitation probability 0.5%
first.org - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-22729
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 querie
nvd.nist.gov
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.