CVE-2025-22223

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.03%

Spring Security Vulnerable to Authorization Bypass via Security Annotations

Published: 3/24/2025Modified: 2/4/2026

Also known as:GHSA-hh3m-g4qj-4835CGA-wv8q-rf4r-4vq7

Description

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

Affected packages (1)

Maven/org.springframework.security:spring-security-core>= 6.4.0, < 6.4.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References (4)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22223
PATCHhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security
WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/dc2e1af2dab8ef81cd4edd25b56a2babeaab8cf9
WEBhttps://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22223