CVE-2016-6652

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Data JPA before 1.9.6 (Gosling SR6) and 1.10.x before 1.10.4 (Hopper SR4), when used with a repository that defines a String query using the @Query annotation, allows attackers to execute arbitrary JPQL commands via a sort instance with a function call.

Affected products

Pivotal Software Spring Data Jpa: through 1.9.4; 1.10.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93276
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jpa/commit/b8e7fe
https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAJPA-965
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6652
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93276
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jpa/commit/b8e7fe
https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAJPA-965
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6652
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-01

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