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.
{
"cna_assigner": "vmware",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-502"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/40xxx/CVE-2026-40993.json",
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "7.0.0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.0.5.1"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
},
{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "7.0.0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.0.5"
}
],
"source": "DESCRIPTION"
}
]
}