CVE-2026-40988 (GCVE-0-2026-40988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 23:46 – Updated: 2026-06-27 21:22
VLAI
Title
Unbounded DEFLATE Inflation in SAML 2.0 Service Provider
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Spring Spring Security Affected: 5.7.0 , < 5.7.24 (custom)
Affected: 5.8.0 , < 5.8.26 (custom)
Affected: 6.3.0 , < 6.3.17 (custom)
Affected: 6.4.0 , < 6.4.17 (custom)
Affected: 6.5.0 , < 6.5.10.2 (custom)
Affected: 7.0.0 , < 7.0.5.1 (custom)
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