GHSA-j388-8rm5-p97f
Spring Data REST is vulnerable to SpEL expression injection through map-typed properties when processing JSON Patch requests
Quick fix
GHSA-j388-8rm5-p97f — org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-core: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
# pom.xml: bump <version>5.0.6</version> for org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-coreDetails
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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Affected packages
5.0.0 Fixed in: 5.0.6 # pom.xml: bump <version>5.0.6</version> for org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-core 4.5.0 Fixed in: 4.5.12 # pom.xml: bump <version>4.5.12</version> for org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-core 4.4.0 No fixed version published yet for org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-core (maven). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
4.3.0 No fixed version published yet for org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-core (maven). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
0 No fixed version published yet for org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-core (maven). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41729 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/releases/tag/4.5.12 [WEB]
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/releases/tag/5.0.6 [WEB]
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41729 [WEB]