CVE-2026-40997

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.35.3—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-11. a secondary CVSS source baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
5.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Several Spring WS integration paths with Spring Security could surface detailed account state (for example locked or disabled user semantics) to remote SOAP clients through exception messages or callback outcomes, instead of failing with generic authentication errors. That behavior assists remote attackers in distinguishing valid accounts from invalid ones and inferring lifecycle state.

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.

CVSS v3
5.3
EG Score
5.3(medium)
EG Risk
28(Track)
EG Risk 28/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity53% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
29%
KEV
Not listed

Published

June 11, 2026

Last Modified

July 23, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jun 16, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

CVE-2026-40997: SOAP security faults leak Spring Security account state

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40997

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-40997(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 75× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 173 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore
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  3. 2026-08-25 00:10 UTCEG score recompute
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  11. 2026-08-20 17:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  14. 2026-08-19 14:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  18. 2026-08-16 23:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  21. 2026-08-16 00:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-08-14 04:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  7. 2026-08-12 07:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  10. 2026-08-11 09:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  16. 2026-08-09 13:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  25. 2026-08-05 19:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  28. 2026-08-04 15:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  32. 2026-08-03 14:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  53. 2026-07-27 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  57. 2026-07-26 05:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  68. 2026-07-16 23:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  74. 2026-07-14 21:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-40997?
CVE-2026-40997 is a medium vulnerability published on June 11, 2026. Several Spring WS integration paths with Spring Security could surface detailed account state (for example locked or disabled user semantics) to remote SOAP clients through exception messages or callback outcomes, instead of failing with generic authentication errors. That behavior assists remote…
When was CVE-2026-40997 disclosed?
CVE-2026-40997 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 11, 2026, with the most recent update on July 23, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-40997 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-40997 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 70.7% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-40997?
CVE-2026-40997 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-40997?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-40997, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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