CVE-2026-40966 (GCVE-0-2026-40966)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-28 06:42
Modified
2026-04-28 13:37
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Summary
In Spring AI, an attacker can bypass conversation isolation and exfiltrate sensitive memory from other users’ chat histories, including secrets and credentials, by injecting filter logic through conversationId. Only applications that use VectorStoreChatMemoryAdvisor and pass user-supplied input as a conversationId are affected.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware Spring AI Version: 1.0.0
Version: 1.1.0
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