CVE-2025-22234 Spring Security - BCrypt Password Encoder maximum password length breaks timing attack mitigation

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...

spring-security-core: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

A flaw was found in the spring-security-core password encoder. This vulnerability allows incorrect password matching via input manipulation...

spring-security-core: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

A flaw was found in the spring-security-core password encoder. This vulnerability allows incorrect password matching via input manipulation...

spring-security-core: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

A flaw was found in the spring-security-core password encoder. This vulnerability allows incorrect password matching via input manipulation...

spring-security-core: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

A flaw was found in the spring-security-core password encoder. This vulnerability allows incorrect password matching via input manipulation...

spring-security-core: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

A flaw was found in the spring-security-core password encoder. This vulnerability allows incorrect password matching via input manipulation...

spring-security-core: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

A flaw was found in the spring-security-core password encoder. This vulnerability allows incorrect password matching via input manipulation...

Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder maximum password length breaks timing attack mitigation

The fix applied in CVE-2025-22228 inadvertently broke the timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvider...

spring-security-core: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

A flaw was found in the spring-security-core password encoder. This vulnerability allows incorrect password matching via input manipulation...

CVE-2025-22228

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

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

Overview org.springframework.security:spring-security-crypto is a spring-security-crypto library for Spring Security. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the BCryptPasswordEncoder.matches function, which only takes the first 72 characte...