CVE-2026-47849 PUBLISHED

Spring Data REST allows mutation of identifier and version properties via JSON Patch

Assigner: vmware
Reserved: 20.05.2026 Published: 27.08.2026 Updated: 27.08.2026

Spring Data REST does not guard identifier (@Id) and version (@Version) properties against mutation via RFC 6902 JSON Patch (application/json-patch+json) requests. Spring Data REST 5.1.0 Spring Data REST 5.0.0 - 5.0.6 Spring Data REST 4.5.0 - 4.5.12 Spring Data REST 4.0.0 - 4.4.15 Spring Data REST 3.7.20 and earlier

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Spring
Product	Spring Data REST
Versions	Default: unaffected Version 5.1.0 is affected affected from 5.0.0 to 5.0.6 (incl.) affected from 4.5.0 to 4.5.12 (incl.) affected from 4.0.0 to 4.4.15 (incl.) affected from 0 to 3.7.20 (incl.)

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-47849

Problem Types

CWE-915 Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes CWE

Impacts

Spring Data REST does not guard identifier (@Id) and version (@Version) properties against mutation via RFC 6902 JSON Patch (application/json-patch+json) requests.