CVE-2025-41248 Security Details

CVE ID

CVE-2025-41248

CWE

CWE-289

CVE 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 .

Published

Sep 16, 2025

CVSS Score & Severity

8.7High

CVSS Vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS Score

0.092%

Malware

malware

KEV Status

Not in KEV Catalog: No known exploits

Vulnerable Methods

org/springframework/security/core/annotation/UniqueSecurityAnnotationScanner.findClosestMethodAnnotations(Ljava/lang/reflect/Method;Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/util/Set;)Ljava/util/List;

JVMVulnerable params: 1

org/springframework/security/core/annotation/UniqueSecurityAnnotationScanner.hasSameGenericTypeParameters(Ljava/lang/reflect/Method;Ljava/lang/reflect/Method;[Ljava/lang/Class;)Z

JVMVulnerable params: 1

Affected Ecosystems

affected

Source

National Vulnerability Database

References

spring.ioPROJECT