spring-projects/spring-security · Security
Spring Security has a broken timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvide
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vqxh-445g-37fc
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-22234
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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.
CWEs
- CWE-208 · Observable Timing Discrepancy