CVE-2025-22234
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.02%Spring Security has a broken timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvide
Published: 1/22/2026Modified: 2/3/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Maven/org.springframework.security:spring-security-core>= 6.3.8, < 6.3.9
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 |