VMware fixes vulnerabilities in Spring Security and Spring Framework

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[TLP:CLEAR] VMware fixes vulnerabilities in Spring Security and Spring Framework

VMware fixes 2 vulnerabilities in Spring Security [1] and Spring Framework [2]. Products and their fixes: Spring Security - 6.4.6 [1] Spring Framework - 6.2.7, 6.1.20, 6.0.28, 5.3.43 [2]

VMware Spring Security - authorization bypass (CVE-2025-41232)

CVSS 9.1 (Critical)

An unauthenticated remote attacker can bypass authorization and call private methods without permission due to incorrect processing of security annotations on private methods when using '@EnableMethodSecurity(mode=ASPECTJ)' and the 'spring-security-aspects' module [1].

The vulnerability is present in product:

*:Spring Security; >=6.4.0, <=6.4.5

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

More information:

CVE-2025-41232 at cve.org, NVD
CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure at cwe.mitre.org

The vulnerability was publicly disclosed 19. 5. 2025.

VMware Spring Framework - sensitive match exception (CVE-2025-22233)

CVSS 3.1 (Low)

An authenticated remote attacker can, due to incomplete protection in the 'disallowedFields' check, despite the introduction of locale-independent lowercase conversion, bypass this check and potentially manipulate values that were supposed to be disallowed [2].

The vulnerability is present in product:

*:Spring Framework; >=6.2.0, <=6.2.6; >=6.1.0, <=6.1.19; >=6.0.0, <=6.0.27; >=5.3.0, <=5.3.42

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

More information:

CVE-2025-22233 at cve.org, NVD
CWE-20: Improper Input Validation at cwe.mitre.org

The vulnerability was publicly disclosed 16. 5. 2025.

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By CESNET, z.s.p.o. Michaela Jarošová on 21. 5. 2025.

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[TLP:CLEAR] VMware fixes vulnerabilities in Spring Security and Spring Framework

VMware Spring Security - authorization bypass (CVE-2025-41232)

CVSS 9.1 (Critical)

VMware Spring Framework - sensitive match exception (CVE-2025-22233)

CVSS 3.1 (Low)

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