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.
Weakness
The product constructs all or part of an expression language (EL) statement in a framework such as a Java Server Page (JSP) using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended EL statement before it is executed.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring_ai | Vmware | 1.0.0 (including) | 1.0.5 (excluding) |
| Spring_ai | Vmware | 1.1.0 (including) | 1.1.4 (excluding) |
Potential Mitigations
- If user-controlled data must be added to an expression interpreter, one or more of the following should be performed: