WS-Security Compliance Issue in Spring Web Services by Pivotal Software
CVE-2026-40994

8.2HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Spring

Status
Spring Web Services
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 June 2026

What is CVE-2026-40994?

A security misconfiguration in Spring Web Services allows the Wss4jSecurityInterceptor to operate with the Basic Security Profile (BSP) compliance flag incorrectly set. This misconfiguration results in the acceptance of WS-Security messages that do not comply with essential BSP rules, thus undermining the integrity of protocol-level validations. Services relying on these policies for secure message processing may inadvertently expose themselves to security risks.

Affected Version(s)

Spring Web Services 5.0.0 < 5.0.1.1

Spring Web Services 4.1.0 < 4.1.3.1

Spring Web Services 4.0.0 < 4.0.19

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40994

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
High
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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