CVE-2025-22234: Spring Security - BCrypt Password Encoder maximum password length breaks timing attack mitigation
Spring · Spring Security
Vendor fix available · Affected: Spring Security · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 33% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Spring · Spring Security5.7.16; 5.8.18; 6.0.16; 6.1.14; 6.2.10; 6.3.8 and 1 more
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Spring
- Published
- January 2026
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