Description

Spring HATEOAS's internal PropertyUtils.createObjectFromProperties method, used by the Collection+JSON and UBER media type deserializers, performs bean property binding via reflection without consulting Jackson access-control annotations.

Affected applications are those that have enabled the COLLECTION_JSON or UBER hypermedia type (via @EnableHypermediaSupport or auto-configuration), expose a controller accepting a RepresentationModel subclass or EntityModel as @RequestBody, and whose bound model type exposes a setter for a security-sensitive property protected only through Jackson annotations rather than by the absence of a setter.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring HATEOAS:

• 1.5.0 - 1.5.6
• 2.3.0 - 2.3.4
• 2.4.0 - 2.4.1
• 2.5.0 - 2.5.2
• 3.0.0 - 3.0.3

Versions that are no longer supported are also affected.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?vector=AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H&version=3.1

History

• 2026-06-02: Initial vulnerability report published.