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AIKIDO-2025-10266

spring-security-core is vulnerable to Observable Timing Discrepancy

Observable Timing DiscrepancyCVE-2025-22234 Published Apr 24, 2025

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Medium Risk

This Affects:

JAVAspring-security-core
5.7.16 - 6.3.8
Fixed in 6.3.9
6.4.4 - 6.4.4
Fixed in 6.4.5
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TL;DR

Affected versions are vulnerable to a regression where the fix for CVE-2025-22228 unintentionally disables the timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvider.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

spring-security-core is vulnerable to Observable Timing Discrepancy in versions 5.7.16 - 6.3.8 and 6.4.4 - 6.4.4.

How to fix this

Upgrade the org.springframework.security:spring-security-core library to the patch version.

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