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

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

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.

Affected products

• Spring Security: from 5.7.x before 5.7.16; from 5.8.x before 5.8.18; from 6.0.x before 6.0.16; from 6.1.x before 6.1.14; from 6.2.x before 6.2.10; from 6.3.x before 6.3.8 — fixed in 5.7.16, 5.8.18, 6.0.16, 6.1.14, 6.2.10, 6.3.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Spring Security 5.7.16, 5.8.18, 6.0.16, 6.1.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250425-0009/

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