CVSS 3.1
5.4 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2026-40995
Medium (5.4) in broadcom spring web services. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-security 4.1.4, 5.0.2.
X509AuthenticationProvider could issue a fully authenticated X509AuthenticationToken when a presented certificate mapped to UserDetails, without applying Spring Security's standard account lifecycle checks (disabled, locked, expired, or credentials-expired accounts).
Affected versions:
Spring Web Services 5.0.0 through 5.0.1; 4.1.0 through 4.1.3; 4.0.0 through 4.0.18; 3.1.0 through 3.1.8.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-287
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- broadcom:spring_web_services
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-6mfm-98wv-32wm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-security | >=5.0.0 <5.0.2 | 5.0.2 |
| GHSA-6mfm-98wv-32wm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-security | >=4.1.0 <4.1.4 | 4.1.4 |
| GHSA-6mfm-98wv-32wm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-security | >=4.0.0 <=4.0.18 | no fix published |
| GHSA-6mfm-98wv-32wm | Maven | org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-security | >=3.1.0 <=3.1.8 | no fix published |