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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-core/CVE-2025-22234
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-core/CVE-2025-22234
Aliases CVE-2025-22234
GHSA-vqxh-445g-37fc
Summary Spring Security has a broken timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvide 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-core/CVE-2025-22234.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security
CVE-2025-22234 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22234
CVE-2025-22234 https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22234
GHSA-vqxh-445g-37fc https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vqxh-445g-37fc
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-core/CVE-2025-22234.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-01-22T21:27:06Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/22xxx/CVE-2025-22234.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-22234

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]