CVE-2025-41248

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 .

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Deferred - security@vmware.com

Published

2025-09-16

Last modified

2025-09-18

Weaknesses

CWE-289

Affected products

• Spring Security (Vmware)

References

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