What is CVE-2019-3797?

CVE-2019-3797 is a low-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Software Spring Data Java Persistence API, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2019-05-06.

How severe is CVE-2019-3797?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Pivotal Software Spring Data Java Persistence API

CVE-2019-3797

This affects Spring Data JPA in versions up to and including 2.1.5, 2.0.13 and 1.11.19. Derived queries using any of the predicates ‘startingWith’, ‘endingWith’ or ‘containing’ could return more results than anticipated when a maliciously crafted query parameter value is supplied. Also, LIKE expressions in manually defined queries could return unexpected results if the parameter values bound did not have escaped reserved characters properly.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2019-05-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Pivotal Software Spring Data Java Persistence API
Spring Boot — versions 2.0, 1.5, 2.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-3797 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-3797?: CVE-2019-3797 is a low-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Software Spring Data Java Persistence API, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2019-05-06.
How severe is CVE-2019-3797?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.