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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2026-41696 json

Spring Data MongoDB Bind Parameter Literal Quoting Breakout

published 2026-06-09 5 mo ago modified 2026-08-12 2 mo ago also GHSA-hc43-m36c-8v33 , EUVD-2026-35892

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring Data MongoDB repository query methods annotated with @Query that use regex parameter binding perform insufficient validation of the bound parameter. An attacker can supply a crafted string to break out of the intended regular expression quoting.

Affected versions: Spring Data MongoDB 5.0.0 through 5.0.5; 4.5.0 through 4.5.11; 4.4.0 through 4.4.14; 4.3.0 through 4.3.16; 4.2.0 through 4.2.15; 4.1.0 through 4.1.14; 4.0.0 through 4.0.15; 3.4.0 through 3.4.19.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.data:spring-data-mongodb 4.5.12, 5.0.6
  • Spring Spring Data MongoDB 3.4.20, 4.0.16, 4.1.15, 4.2.16, 4.3.17, 4.4.15, 4.5.12, 5.0.6

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-41696 updated cvss 5.9

org.springframework.data/spring-data-mongodb: Spring Data MongoDB: Information disclosure via insufficient regex parameter validation

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 spring-data-mongodb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack spring-data-mongodb
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.data:spring-data-mongodb
>=5.0.0, <5.0.6
>=4.5.0, <4.5.12
>=4.4.0, <=4.4.14
>=4.0.0, <=4.3.16
<=3.4.19
5.0.6
4.5.12

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Data MongoDB

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-943 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic

References

Sources

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