CVE-2025-41248

EUVD-2025-29538

16.09.2025, 11:15

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 .

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
vmware	CNA	7.5 HIGH	NETWORK	LOW	NONE	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: Unknown

Early Detection

Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.

Vendor	Product	Version	Source
vmware	spring_security	𝑥 < 6.4.11	CNA
vmware	spring_security	𝑥 < 6.5.5	CNA

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-289 - Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name
The software performs authentication based on the name of a resource being accessed, or the name of the actor performing the access, but it does not properly check all possible names for that resource or actor.

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-41248