CVE-2025-22228

CVE-2025-22228: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

State: Published
Severity: 7.4 High
Published: Mar 20, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jan 2, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring SecuritySpring	5.7.x to before 5.7.16Affected 5.8.x to before 5.8.18Affected 6.0.x to before 6.0.16Affected 6.1.x to before 6.1.14Affected 6.2.x to before 6.2.10Affected 6.3.x to before 6.3.8Affected 6.4.x to before 6.4.4Affected

References

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