CVE-2026-40993

HighCVSS 7.2/10Last modified Jul 23, 2026

Description

An attacker with write permissions to the database table managed by JdbcAssertingPartyMetadataRepository (saml2_asserting_party_metadata) may be able to store malicious serialized payloads in the columns containing the collection of verification or encryption credentials (verification_credentials and encryption_credentials, respectively).

Affected versions: Spring Security 7.0.0 through 7.0.5.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.2/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-502

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Spring	Spring Security	>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.5.1

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40993Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 10, 2026
Last modified: Jul 23, 2026
NVD status: Analyzed

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