What is CVE-2025-22232?

CVE-2025-22232 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Cloud Config, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-04-10.

How severe is CVE-2025-22232?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Spring Cloud Config

CVE-2025-22232

Spring Cloud Config Server may not use Vault token sent by clients using a X-CONFIG-TOKEN header when making requests to Vault. Your application may be affected by this if the following are true: * You have Spring Vault on the classpath…

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.002 (45.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Spring Cloud Config — versions 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 4.0.x

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

spring.io/security/cve-2025-22232

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-22232?: CVE-2025-22232 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Cloud Config, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-04-10.
How severe is CVE-2025-22232?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.