CVE-2025-41248: vmware spring_security Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-41248 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name vulnerability in vmware spring_security. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 16-09-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 18-09-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 .

• CWE-289Authentication Bypass by Alternate NameThe product 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.