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CVE-2025-22228 (GCVE-0-2025-22228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-20 05:49 – Updated: 2026-02-26 19:09
VLAI
Title
CVE-2025-22228: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length
Summary
BCryptPasswordEncoder.matches(CharSequence,String) will incorrectly return true for passwords larger than 72 characters as long as the first 72 characters are the same.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-21 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Spring Spring Security Affected: 5.7.x , < 5.7.16 (Enterprise Support Only)
Affected: 5.8.x , < 5.8.18 (Enterprise Support Only)
Affected: 6.0.x , < 6.0.16 (Enterprise Support Only)
Affected: 6.1.x , < 6.1.14 (Enterprise Support Only)
Affected: 6.2.x , < 6.2.10 (Enterprise Support Only)
Affected: 6.3.x , < 6.3.8 (OSS)
Affected: 6.4.x , < 6.4.4 (OSS)
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Date Public
2025-03-19 08:44
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