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CVE-2025-22234 (GCVE-0-2025-22234)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-22 21:02 – Updated: 2026-01-22 21:27
VLAI
Title
Spring Security - BCrypt Password Encoder maximum password length breaks timing attack mitigation
Summary
The fix applied in CVE-2025-22228 inadvertently broke the timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvider. This can allow attackers to infer valid usernames or other authentication behavior via response-time differences under certain configurations.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-22 21:27 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Spring Spring Security Affected: 5.7.16 (semver)
Affected: 5.8.18 (semver)
Affected: 6.0.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.14 (semver)
Affected: 6.2.10 (semver)
Affected: 6.3.8 (semver)
Affected: 6.4.4 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-04-25 15:43
Credits
Jonas Robl
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