CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-40988
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-10
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
An application using spring-security-saml2-service-provider and the REDIRECT binding for SAML 2.0 Login or Logout may be vulnerable to a denial of service by way of an unbounded writer that inflates the compressed SAML payload into memory.
Affected versions:
Spring Security 5.7.0 through 5.7.23; 5.8.0 through 5.8.25; 6.3.0 through 6.3.16; 6.4.0 through 6.4.16; 6.5.0 through 6.5.10; 7.0.0 through 7.0.5.
Affected configurations
• vmware spring security (>= 5.7.0 < 5.7.24)
• vmware spring security (>= 5.8.0 < 5.8.26)
• vmware spring security (>= 6.3.0 < 6.3.17)
• vmware spring security (>= 6.4.0 < 6.4.17)
• vmware spring security (>= 6.5.0 < 6.5.10.2)
• vmware spring security (>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.5.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40988 Vendor Advisory