CVE-2025-22228: Spring Security Does Not Enforce Password Length

March 20, 2025

BCryptPasswordEncoder.matches(CharSequence,String) will incorrectly return true for passwords larger than 72 characters as long as the first 72 characters are the same.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg83-c7gq-rv5c
github.com/spring-projects/spring-security
github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/46f0dc6dfc8402cd556c598fdf2d31f9d46cdbf3
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22228
spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228

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