Spring Data REST is vulnerable to SpEL expression injection through map-typed properties when processing JSON Patch (application/json-patch+json) requests. When a persistent entity exposes a Map-typed property, the JSON Pointer path segment used as the map key is embedded directly into a SpEL expression without sanitization or validation. Affected versions: Spring Data REST 3.7.0 through 3.7.19; 4.3.0 through 4.3.16; 4.4.0 through 4.4.14; 4.5.0 through 4.5.11; 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Spring spring Data Rest
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Description Spring Data REST is vulnerable to SpEL expression injection through map-typed properties when processing JSON Patch (application/json-patch+json) requests. When a persistent entity exposes a Map-typed property, the JSON Pointer path segment used as the map key is embedded directly into a SpEL expression without sanitization or validation. Affected versions: Spring Data REST 3.7.0 through 3.7.19; 4.3.0 through 4.3.16; 4.4.0 through 4.4.14; 4.5.0 through 4.5.11; 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.
Title Spring Data REST SpEL Injection via Map Key in JSON Patch
Weaknesses CWE-917
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2026-06-09T23:49:17.014Z

Updated: 2026-06-10T17:27:17.551Z

Reserved: 2026-04-22T06:21:39.015Z

Link: CVE-2026-41729

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-10T17:27:12.145Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-06-10T00:16:52.367

Modified: 2026-06-10T19:24:04.320

Link: CVE-2026-41729

cve-icon Redhat

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