7.5

CVE-2026-22753: spring spring security Protection Mechanism Failure

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-gh8f-jjw8-g52rCGA-hfq7-w2cj-p8v3CGA-p54x-h388-2689
Published 22-04-2026Last modified 22-04-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-22753 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability in spring spring security. EPSS estimates a 0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.25%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 1
CGA-728P-XC7J-JWWC

Timeline

  1. 22-04-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 22-04-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. If an application is using securityMatchers(String) and a PathPatternRequestMatcher.Builder bean to prepend a servlet path, matching requests to that filter chain may fail and its related security components will not be exercised as intended by the application. This can lead to the authentication, authorization, and other security controls being rendered inactive on intended requests.This issue affects Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.25%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

15%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.25% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.25%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard3 products
  • apache-nifi< 2.9.0-r3
  • apache-nifi-registry< 2.9.0-r5
  • camunda-zeebe-8.9< 8.9.1-r1
Wolfi2 products
  • apache-nifi< 2.9.0-r3
  • apache-nifi-registry< 2.9.0-r5
Org.springframework.security1 product
  • spring-security-config≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.5
Spring1 product
Vmware1 product

5 vendors · 8 products

References

4 links