CVE-2026-40997

SOAP security faults leak Spring Security account state

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jun 11, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2026

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring Web ServicesSpring	5.0.0 to before 5.0.1.1Affected 4.1.0 to before 4.1.3.1Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.19Affected 3.1.0 to before 3.1.9Affected

References

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

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