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    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/20319?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-4ebc-ngad-mqa6",
    "summary": "Spring Security has a broken timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvide\nThe 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.",
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