CVE-2026-40993: VMware Spring Security

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Spring Security: from 7.0.0, before 7.0.5.1 (fixed in 7.0.5.1)

Published 2026-06-10. Last modified 2026-07-23.