Vulnerabilites related to VMware - Spring Security
CVE-2025-41248 (GCVE-0-2025-41248)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-16 10:10
Modified
2025-09-18 06:29
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Summary
The Spring Security annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotations on methods within type hierarchies with a parameterized super type with unbounded generics. This can be an issue when using @PreAuthorize and other method security annotations, resulting in an authorization bypass.
Your application may be affected by this if you are using Spring Security's @EnableMethodSecurity feature.
You are not affected by this if you are not using @EnableMethodSecurity or if you do not use security annotations on methods in generic superclasses or generic interfaces.
This CVE is published in conjunction with CVE-2025-41249 https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-41249 .
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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VMware | Spring Security |
Version: 6.4.x Version: 6.5.x |
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