CVE-2025-22228

Published: Mar 20, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.4

HIGH

Description

BCryptPasswordEncoder.matches(CharSequence,String) will incorrectly return true for passwords larger than 72 characters as long as the first 72 characters are the same.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Spring	Spring Security	affected `5.7.x - < 5.7.16` affected `5.8.x - < 5.8.18` affected `6.0.x - < 6.0.16` affected `6.1.x - < 6.1.14` affected `6.2.x - < 6.2.10` +2 more versions

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228

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CVE-2025-22228

Description

Affected Products

CVSS v3.1 Details

References