Vmware Spring Data REST up to 5.0.5 access control

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Vmware Spring Data REST up to 3.7.19/4.3.16/4.4.14/4.5.11/5.0.5. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-41837. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Vmware Spring Data REST up to 3.7.19/4.3.16/4.4.14/4.5.11/5.0.5. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Spring Data REST's Querydsl integration accepts arbitrary persistent property paths as request-parameter filter keys and does not consider Jackson customizations before handing them to Querydsl. 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at spring.io. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-41837 since 04/22/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/10/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.7.20, 4.3.17, 4.4.15, 4.5.12 or 5.0.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Vmware

Name

• Spring Data REST

Version

• 3.7.0
• 3.7.1
• 3.7.2
• 3.7.3
• 3.7.4
• 3.7.5
• 3.7.6
• 3.7.7
• 3.7.8
• 3.7.9
• 3.7.10
• 3.7.11
• 3.7.12
• 3.7.13
• 3.7.14
• 3.7.15
• 3.7.16
• 3.7.17
• 3.7.18
• 3.7.19
• 4.3.0
• 4.3.1
• 4.3.2
• 4.3.3
• 4.3.4
• 4.3.5
• 4.3.6
• 4.3.7
• 4.3.8
• 4.3.9
• 4.3.10
• 4.3.11
• 4.3.12
• 4.3.13
• 4.3.14
• 4.3.15
• 4.3.16
• 4.4.0
• 4.4.1
• 4.4.2
• 4.4.3
• 4.4.4
• 4.4.5
• 4.4.6
• 4.4.7
• 4.4.8
• 4.4.9
• 4.4.10
• 4.4.11
• 4.4.12
• 4.4.13
• 4.4.14
• 4.5.0
• 4.5.1
• 4.5.2
• 4.5.3
• 4.5.4
• 4.5.5
• 4.5.6
• 4.5.7
• 4.5.8
• 4.5.9
• 4.5.10
• 4.5.11
• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.0.3
• 5.0.4
• 5.0.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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