An attacker with write permissions to the database table managed by JdbcAssertingPartyMetadataRepository (saml2assertingpartymetadata) may be able to store malicious serialized payloads in the columns containing the collection of verification or encryption credentials (verificationcredentials and encryption_credentials, respectively).
Affected versions: Spring Security 7.0.0 through 7.0.5.
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"extracted_events": [
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"introduced": "7.0.0"
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{
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"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
},
{
"extracted_events": [
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"introduced": "7.0.0"
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"source": "DESCRIPTION"
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"cna_assigner": "vmware",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/40xxx/CVE-2026-40993.json",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-502"
]
}