CVE-2026-40993

highpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.002 · 9 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.20% (9th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.6–7.3

v3.17.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.9

v3.17.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security@vmware.comexploitability 1 · impact 5.8

v3.17.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-502USCWE-502US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Dell Secure Connect Gateway <5.36.00.16all versionscert_bundDE
IBM Operational Decision Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:operational_decision_manager:-
Dell Secure Connect Gateway< 5.36.00.16cert_bundDE
VMware Tanzu Spring Security< 7.0.6cert_bundDE
Spring Spring Security7.0.0 → 7.0.5.1enisa_euvdEU
vmware spring security7.0.0 → 7.0.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-saml2-service-provider7.0.0 → 7.0.6osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-saml2-service-provider

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-1869VMware Tanzu Spring Security: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-06-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in VMware Tanzu Spring Security ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service zu verursachen, beliebigen Code auszuführen, Benutzer auf beliebige Websites umzuleiten, Informationen offenzulegen und die Identität eines anderen Benutzers anzunehmen.
GHSA-2q7c-5gjm-7q23Spring Security SAML2 Service Provider is vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via JdbcAssertingPartyMetadataRepository2026-06-10ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-06-10modified 2026-07-23

references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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