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