Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-40993
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 9.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.3
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-40993
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:7.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:7.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:7.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:7.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:7.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:7.0.5