CVE-2026-22743: Spring AI has a Cypher Injection vulnerability in Neo4jVectorFilterExpressionConverter

CVE-2026-22743 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.5 · Published 2026-03-27

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.

Technologies: VMware Spring Ai. Vendors: Maven, VMware.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-22743 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-22743 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-22743?
High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 27 March 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-neo4j-store (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=1.0.0-M5,fixed=1.0.5.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-22743?
Yes. org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-neo4j-store (Maven): upgrade to 1.0.5 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-22743?
Check whether you run org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-neo4j-store (Maven) or VMware Spring Ai at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-neo4j-store (Maven): upgrade to 1.0.5 or later
    # set org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-neo4j-store to 1.0.5 in your pom.xml or build.gradle

Affected products

  • org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-neo4j-store (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=1.0.0-M5,fixed=1.0.5
  • VMware Spring Ai

Identifiers

  • CVE-2026-22743
  • GHSA-7cj7-rcw6-p68v

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