CVE-2026-22738: VMware Spring Ai

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Spring Ai: from 1.0.0, before 1.0.5 (fixed in 1.0.5); from 1.1.0, before 1.1.4 (fixed in 1.1.4)

Published 2026-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.