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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2025-22223 json

Spring Security Vulnerable to Authorization Bypass via Security Annotations

published 2025-03-24 19 mo ago modified 2026-08-07 3 mo ago also GHSA-hh3m-g4qj-4835 , EUVD-2025-7998

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring Security 6.4.0 - 6.4.3 may not correctly locate method security annotations on parameterized types or methods. This may cause an authorization bypass.

You are not affected if you are not using @EnableMethodSecurity, or you do not have method security annotations on parameterized types or methods, or all method security annotations are attached to target methods

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core 6.4.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-22223 updated cvss 5.3

spring-security: authorization bypass via incorrectly locating method security annotations on parameterized types or methods

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 spring-security-core, org.apache.servicemix.bundles.spring-security-core Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 spring-security-core
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 spring-security-core Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 spring-security-core Red Hat build of Quarkus quarkus-bom Red Hat Data Grid 8 spring-security-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 spring-security-core
    +5 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 spring-security-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack spring-security-core Red Hat Process Automation 7 spring-security-core Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 spring-security-core Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka spring-security-core
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core
>=6.4.0, <6.4.4
6.4.4

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Security

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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