CVE-2026-40994Wss4jSecurityInterceptor disables WS-I BSP validation by default
- 8.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Wss4jSecurityInterceptor initialized its BSP (WS-I Basic Security Profile) compliance flag so that inbound validation disabled WSS4J BSP enforcement on RequestData. Services that validate WS-Security on the network could therefore accept messages that violate BSP rules, weakening protocol-level checks. 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Published
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Affected products
- affected 5.0.0 – < 5.0.1.1
- affected 4.1.0 – < 4.1.3.1
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.19
- affected 3.1.0 – < 3.1.9
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework.ws:spring-ws-securityGHSA-gg9r-wr4p-w63h (opens in a new tab)
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-36204 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gg9r-wr4p-w63h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-40994)Record last updated .