CVE-2026-41730: Spring Data REST potentially exposes persistence-layer internals to HTTP clients

June 10, 2026 (updated August 12, 2026)

Spring Data REST serializes the full exception cause chain into HTTP error response bodies, potentially exposing persistence-layer internals to HTTP clients.

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-p5mm-xwgq-whfr
github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/releases/tag/4.5.12
github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/releases/tag/5.0.6
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41730
spring.io/security/cve-2026-41730

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