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CVE

GHSA-mg83-c7gq-rv5c

Spring Security Does Not Enforce Password Length
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CVE

GHSA-mg83-c7gq-rv5c

Spring Security Does Not Enforce Password Length

BCryptPasswordEncoder.matches(CharSequence,String) will incorrectly return true for passwords larger than 72 characters as long as the first 72 characters are the same.

Package Versions Affected

Package Version
patch Availability
org.springframework.security:spring-security-crypto 4.2.20.RELEASE
Available
Unavailable
org.springframework.security:spring-security-crypto 5.8.16
Available
Unavailable

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
7.4
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
C
H
U
7.4
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Related Resources

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22228, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/46f0dc6dfc8402cd556c598fdf2d31f9d46cdbf3, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250425-0009, https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228

Severity

7.4

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.4
EPSS Probability
0.00101%
EPSS Percentile
0.28625%
Introduced Version
5.4.11,5.5.7,5.6.4,6.4.0,5.2.0.RELEASE,5.5.0,5.6.0,3.1.0.RELEASE
Fix Available
6.3.8,6.4.4

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