CVE-2026-40993

high

Published 2026-06-10 · Modified 2026-06-10

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CVSS v3

7.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

72%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

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

CWEs

CWE-502

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.