cve-2025-22228
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-20 05:49
Modified
2025-03-21 16:09
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS score ?
0.04% (0.10189)
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.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Spring Spring Security Version: 5.7.x
Version: 5.8.x
Version: 6.0.x
Version: 6.1.x
Version: 6.2.x
Version: 6.3.x
Version: 6.4.x
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