CVE-2026-41697: Broadcom Spring Data Relational

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Spring Data Relational does not properly escape binding values of externally-controlled input when using StringMatcher (STARTING, ENDING, or CONTAINING) in Query By Example (QBE). An attacker can supply wildcard characters to perform boolean-based blind data inference. Affected versions: Spring Data Relational/JDBC/R2DBC 4.0.0 through 4.0.5; 3.5.0 through 3.5.11; 3.4.0 through 3.4.14; 3.3.0 through 3.3.16; 3.2.0 through 3.2.15; 3.1.0 through 3.1.14; 3.0.0 through 3.0.15; 2.4.0 through 2.4.19.

Affected products

• Broadcom Spring Data Relational: before 2.4.20 (fixed in 2.4.20); from 3.0.0, before 3.3.17 (fixed in 3.3.17); from 3.4.0, before 3.4.15 (fixed in 3.4.15); from 3.5.0, before 3.5.11.1 (fixed in 3.5.11.1); from 4.0.0, before 4.0.5.1 (fixed in 4.0.5.1)

Published 2026-06-10. Last modified 2026-09-04.