CVE-2026-47849: VMware Spring Data Rest

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Spring Data REST does not guard identifier (@Id) and version (@Version) properties against mutation via RFC 6902 JSON Patch (application/json-patch+json) requests. Spring Data REST 5.1.0 Spring Data REST 5.0.0 - 5.0.6 Spring Data REST 4.5.0 - 4.5.12 Spring Data REST 4.0.0 - 4.4.15 Spring Data REST 3.7.20 and earlier

Affected products

• VMware Spring Data Rest: before 3.7.21 (fixed in 3.7.21); from 4.0.0, before 4.4.16 (fixed in 4.4.16); from 4.5.0, before 4.5.13 (fixed in 4.5.13); from 5.0.0, before 5.0.6.1 (fixed in 5.0.6.1); from 5.1.0, before 5.1.0.1 (fixed in 5.1.0.1)

Published 2026-08-27. Last modified 2026-09-02.