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FKIE_CVE-2025-22234

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-22 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:45

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@vmware.com	https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22234/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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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

Title

Spring Security - BCrypt Password Encoder maximum password length breaks timing attack mitigation

Summary

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

CWE-208 - Timing Descrepency

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22234/	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
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)

Date Public

2025-04-25 15:43

Credits

Jonas Robl

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