This Week in Spring - February 24th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome and oh-so-agentic week in Spring! We've got a ton to look into, and I've got even more to prepare for next week's DevNexus event in Atlanta, GA, so let's dive right into it! Be sure to say "hi" if you're going to be there, though! You've heard of Agent...

This Week in Spring - February 17th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year for billions of people around the world and to those who celebrate, Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year 新年快乐! Or Happy Spring Festival 春节快乐! My favorite kind of festival! In honor ...

Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-7.0.1.13)

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 7.0.1.13. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-7.0.1.13 advisory. - Under certain circumstances, BIND is too lenient when accepting records from answers, allowing an attacker to inject forg...

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (January 2026 CPU)

The 7.6.0.0.0 and 8.2.0.0.0 versions of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher installed on the remote host are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the January 2026 CPU advisory. - Security-in-Depth issue in the Oracle BI Publisher product of Oracle Analytics component: Development...

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...

GHSA-VQXH-445G-37FC 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...

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...

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 security vulnerabilities

Spring Security is a security framework developed by Spring, an open-source project, that includes authentication and authorization features. Spring Security has security vulnerabilities; these vulnerabilities stem from the timing attack mitigation measures in the DaoAuthenticationProvider being...

Oracle WebCenter Sites (January 2026 CPU)

The 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 versions of WebCenter Sites installed on the remote host are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the January 2026 CPU advisory. - Vulnerability in the Oracle WebCenter Sites product of Oracle Fusion Middleware component: Core Apache Log4j. The...

security-antipatterns-java

Security Anti-Patterns for Java AI coding agents write insecu...

This Week in Spring - January 20th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already the 20th of January and we are off on yet another rip roarin' adventure as we look at the week that has been... this week in Spring! even more good stuff from Spring AI team legend Christian Tsolov, this one on...

Atlassian Jira Service Management Data Center and Server 11.0.x < 11.2.0 (JSDSERVER-16466)

The version of Atlassian Jira Service Management Data Center and Server Jira Service Desk running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the JSDSERVER-16466 advisory. - The Spring Security annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotations on methods...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security lead Rob Winchon Spring Security 7

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I have the privilege of sitting down and talking to the legendary Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security, Spring Session, and the amazing Testjars project...

Atlassian Confluence 10.1.x< 10.1.1 (CONFSERVER-101485)

The version of Atlassian Confluence Server running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CONFSERVER-101485 advisory. - The Spring Security annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotations on methods within type hierarchies with a parameterized...

This Year in Spring – December 30th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? It's already the 30th of December! I celebrated Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, then we jumped on a flight headed for Southeast Asia to ring in the New Year with more friends and family. I'm sitting at a café in the sweltering city of Kuala Lumpur,...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an authentication bypass in Spring Security [CVE-2025-41248]

Summary IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge is vulnerable to an authentication bypass in Spring Security, due to an issue where annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotations on methods within type hierarchies with a parameterized super type with unbounded generics...

This Week in Spring – December 16th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it’s been! We’ve got around nine shopping days ’til Christmas, and the New Year is almost here! Things are moving so quickly and the Spring community is no exception! Let's dive into this week's wonderful...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.1.0

Summary In addition to many updates of operating system level packages, the following security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Process Mining 2.1.0 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2025-41248 DESCRIPTION: The Spring Security annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotatio...

org.springframework.security/spring-security-core: Spring Security authorization bypass

The Spring Security annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotations on methods within type hierarchies with a parameterized super type with unbounded generics. This can be an issue when using @PreAuthorize and other method security annotations, resulting in an authorization...