CVE-2025-22228

HIGH

Spring Security Crypto 6.3.0-6.3.7 and Spring Security 5.7.x-6.4.x - Improper Authentication via BCryptPasswordEncoder

Title source: llm

Description

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

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228

Vendor Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250425-0009/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4

EPSS 0.0052

EPSS Percentile 40.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-287

Status published

Products (8)

org.springframework.security/spring-security-crypto 6.3.0 - 6.3.8Maven

Spring/Spring Security 5.7.x - 5.7.16

Spring/Spring Security 5.8.x - 5.8.18

Spring/Spring Security 6.0.x - 6.0.16

Spring/Spring Security 6.1.x - 6.1.14

Spring/Spring Security 6.2.x - 6.2.10

Spring/Spring Security 6.3.x - 6.3.8

Spring/Spring Security 6.4.x - 6.4.4

Published Mar 20, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026