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CVE-2025-41248 (GCVE-0-2025-41248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 10:10 – Updated: 2025-09-18 06:29
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Title
CVE-2025-41248: Spring Security authorization bypass for method security annotations on parameterized types
Summary
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 bypass. Your application may be affected by this if you are using Spring Security's @EnableMethodSecurity feature. You are not affected by this if you are not using @EnableMethodSecurity or if you do not use security annotations on methods in generic superclasses or generic interfaces. This CVE is published in conjunction with CVE-2025-41249 https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-41249 .
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-16 19:27 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-289 - Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VMware Spring Security Affected: 6.4.x , < 6.4.11 (OSS)
Affected: 6.5.x , < 6.5.5 (OSS)
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Date Public
2025-09-15 18:27
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