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
Spring Data REST does not preserve the persisted version (@Version) property of an aggregate root when handling an HTTP PUT against an immutable target type.
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
Malicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST versions prior to 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9), versions prior to 3.0.1 (Kay SR1) and Spring Boot versions prior to 1.5.9, 2.0 M6 can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbitrary Java code.