CVE-2026-41728

Spring Data REST JSON Patch bypasses Jackson read-only property protection on nested objects and collections

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jun 9, 2026
Updated: Jun 30, 2026
Reserved: Apr 22, 2026

Description

Spring Data REST's JSON Patch (application/json-patch+json) implementation does not apply the write-access filter to intermediate path segments when resolving a multi-segment JSON Pointer.

Affected versions: Spring Data REST 3.7.0 through 3.7.19; 4.3.0 through 4.3.16; 4.4.0 through 4.4.14; 4.5.0 through 4.5.11; 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring Data RESTSpring	3.7.0 to before 3.7.20Affected 4.3.0 to before 4.3.17Affected 4.4.0 to before 4.4.15Affected 4.5.0 to before 4.5.11.1Affected 5.0.0 to before 5.0.5.1Affected

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41728

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