What is CVE-2025-22234?

CVE-2025-22234 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Security, classified under CWE-208. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-01-22.

How severe is CVE-2025-22234?

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

Vulnerability in Spring Security

CVE-2025-22234

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 u…

EPSS: 0.000 (6.3th 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 Security — versions 5.7.16, 5.8.18, 6.0.16

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-208

References

Spring Security Advisory: CVE-2025-22234 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-22234?: CVE-2025-22234 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Security, classified under CWE-208. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-01-22.
How severe is CVE-2025-22234?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.