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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-crypto/CVE-2025-22228
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-crypto/CVE-2025-22228
Aliases CVE-2025-22228
GHSA-mg83-c7gq-rv5c
Summary Spring Security Does Not Enforce Password Length BCryptPasswordEncoder.matches(CharSequence,String) will incorrectly return true for passwords larger than 72 characters as long as the first 72 characters are the same.
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 (4)
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
CWE-521 Weak Password Requirements
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-crypto/CVE-2025-22228.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/46f0dc6dfc8402cd556c598fdf2d31f9d46cdbf3
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250425-0009
CVE-2025-22228 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22228
CVE-2025-22228 https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228
GHSA-mg83-c7gq-rv5c https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg83-c7gq-rv5c
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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.springframework.security/spring-security-crypto/CVE-2025-22228.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

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-03-21T03:55:17Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/22xxx/CVE-2025-22228.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-22228

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]