TI-2025-16134 Aliases CVE-2025-22223 GHSA-hh3m-g4qj-4835

Authentication bypass by spoofing in VMware Spring Security

LOW 31CWE-290Published 2025-03-24 · Updated 2025-03-24

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · None · None
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-290.

Summary

Spring Security 6.4.0 - 6.4.3 may not correctly locate method security annotations on parameterized types or methods. This may cause an authorization bypass. You are not affected if you are not using @EnableMethodSecurity, or you do not have method security annotations on parameterized types or methods, or all method security annotations are attached to target methods

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00506 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (Maven): 6.4.4Red Hat: 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
VMware	Spring Security	6.4.0-6.4.3	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (Maven)	6.4.0 to before 6.4.4	6.4.4	Patch available	GHSA-hh3m-g4qj-4835

Spring Security VendorVMware Affected 6.4.0-6.4.3 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (Maven) Vendor— Affected 6.4.0 to before 6.4.4 Fixed in 6.4.4 Patch available GHSA-hh3m-g4qj-4835

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security::::::::	—	—	VMware

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·VMware

Remediation

Fix · GHSA-hh3m-g4qj-4835 org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (Maven) Fixed in 6.4.4 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Fuse 7	Affected	No fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Integration Camel K 1	Affected	No fix planned: Out of support scope

Not affected: 11 products

A-MQ Clients 2
OpenShift Developer Tools and Services
Red Hat Data Grid 8
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
Red Hat Process Automation 7
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4
Red Hat build of Quarkus
streams for Apache Kafka

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-22223
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hh3m-g4qj-4835

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22223

Other 3

TI-2026-42442 vCenter directory-traversal vulnerability KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-26040 Privilege escalation in VMware vCenter Server KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-26039 Heap-overflow in VMware vCenter Server KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-24610 Out-of-bounds write in VMware vCenter Server KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2023-16914 VMware vCenter Server Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2023-07303 Command injection in Aria Operations for Networks KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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