Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-saml2-service-provider package, versions [7.0.0, 7.0.6)
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- published11 Jun 2026
- disclosed9 Jun 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 9 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-40993 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-saml2-service-provider to version 7.0.6 or higher.
Overview
org.springframework.security:spring-security-saml2-service-provider is a security component for the Spring Framework.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via deserialization of credential data stored in JdbcAssertingPartyMetadataRepository. An attacker with write access to the saml2_asserting_party_metadata table can store malicious serialized objects in the verification_credentials or encryption_credentials columns. When these records are subsequently read and deserialized by the application, the attacker may trigger execution of arbitrary code on the server.
Details
Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.
Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.