What is CVE-2026-40967?

CVE-2026-40967 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring Ai, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2026-04-28.

How severe is CVE-2026-40967?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.

RCE in Spring Ai

CVE-2026-40967

In Spring AI, various FilterExpressionConverter implementations accept a filter expression object and translate them to specific vector store query languages. In several cases, keys and values are not properly escaped, leading to the abili…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.000 (9.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.6 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Spring Ai — versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0
Vmware Spring_ai

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

security@vmware.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-40967?: CVE-2026-40967 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring Ai, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2026-04-28.
How severe is CVE-2026-40967?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.