CVE-2026-40968

medium VMware
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Published: April 28, 2026 (15 days ago)
Last Modified: April 30, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD

Description

When an authenticated user is denied access to a gRPC method, their authenticated identity remains bound to the gRPC worker thread and can be inherited by a subsequent unauthenticated request on the same thread. This may allow the subsequent user to gain escalated permissions. Affected versions: Spring gRPC: 1.0.0 - 1.0.2 (fixed in 1.0.3). Older, unsupported versions are also affected.

CWE

CWE-653

Affected Products

vmware spring grpc

References

🔗 spring.io