VMware Spring AI up to 1.0.4/1.1.3 Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter doKey injection

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A vulnerability was found in VMware Spring AI up to 1.0.4/1.1.3. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function doKey of the component Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter. This manipulation causes injection. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-22743. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in VMware Spring AI up to 1.0.4/1.1.3. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function doKey of the component Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Spring AI's spring-ai-neo4j-store contains a Cypher injection vulnerability in Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter. When a user-controlled string is passed as a filter expression key in Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter of spring-ai-neo4j-store, doKey() embeds the key into a backtick-delimited Cypher property accessor (node.`metadata.`) after stripping only double quotes, without escaping embedded backticks.This issue affects Spring AI: from 1.0.0 before 1.0.5, from 1.1.0 before 1.1.4.

It is possible to read the advisory at spring.io. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-22743 since 01/09/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/30/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 304267 (Spring AI 1.0.x < 1.0.5 / 1.1.x < 1.1.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.0.5 or 1.1.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (304267). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Artificial Intelligence Software

Vendor

• VMware

Name

• Spring AI

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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