`CVE-2025-41248`

Severity	7.5 High CVSS 3.1
Fixed in	`6.4.10`, `6.5.4`
Weakness	Incorrect authorization (CWE-863)
Published	16 Sep 2025
Updated	17 Jun 2026

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-289

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published a year ago.

CISA KEV not listed
VulnCheck KEV not listed
CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
Indexed PoC none indexed
EPSS 0.45% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

A public code fix exists: spring-projects/spring-security d0f93fa.

Protection none
Action unverified
Review automated Upstream data
Record active

Decided by	Exploit code for this candidate, published in a reviewed catalogue or a GitHub repository with 5 or more stars, or in use per CISA or VulnCheck; not only a CISA verdict, a forecast, or nothing at all
Finding	This CVE is not listed in CISA KEV or VulnCheck KEV, CISA Vulnrichment records no active exploitation, no reviewed exploit catalogue carries an entry for it, and no GitHub PoC repository for it has 5 or more stars. Nobody has published exploit code worth tracing, so it is not a candidate for a rule ahead of the ones where somebody has; an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds. This is a statement about what has been published, not about whether the defect is reachable or serious.

Decided by

Exploit code for this candidate, published in a reviewed catalogue or a GitHub repository with 5 or more stars, or in use per CISA or VulnCheck; not only a CISA verdict, a forecast, or nothing at all

Finding

This CVE is not listed in CISA KEV or VulnCheck KEV, CISA Vulnrichment records no active exploitation, no reviewed exploit catalogue carries an entry for it, and no GitHub PoC repository for it has 5 or more stars. Nobody has published exploit code worth tracing, so it is not a candidate for a rule ahead of the ones where somebody has; an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds. This is a statement about what has been published, not about whether the defect is reachable or serious.

Affected software and releases

Oracle advisories

Advisory	Type	Quarter	Products Oracle names in its risk matrix
Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2026 ↗	CPU	2026-Q3	Oracle Financial Services Applications / Payments Core (Spring Security) (14.5.0-14.8.0)
Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2026 ↗	CPU	2026-Q2	Oracle Communications / Core (Spring Security) (6.1.1-7.0.0) Oracle Communications / Signaling (Spring Security) (25.1.204) Oracle Financial Services Applications / Reports (Spring Security) (14.5.0.0.0-14.8.0.0.0)
Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2026 ↗	CPU	2026-Q1	Oracle Financial Services Applications / Installer (Spring Security) (8.1.3.2) Oracle Fusion Middleware / Core (Spring Security) (14.1.2.0.0)

Advisory

Type

Quarter

Products Oracle names in its risk matrix

Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2026 ↗

CPU

2026-Q3

Oracle Financial Services Applications / Payments Core (Spring Security) (14.5.0-14.8.0)

Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2026 ↗

CPU

2026-Q2

Oracle Communications / Core (Spring Security) (6.1.1-7.0.0)
Oracle Communications / Signaling (Spring Security) (25.1.204)
Oracle Financial Services Applications / Reports (Spring Security) (14.5.0.0.0-14.8.0.0.0)

Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2026 ↗

CPU

2026-Q1

Oracle Financial Services Applications / Installer (Spring Security) (8.1.3.2)
Oracle Fusion Middleware / Core (Spring Security) (14.1.2.0.0)

Oracle components and versions

Family	Component	Versions, as Oracle lists them	Read as
Oracle Communications	Core (Spring Security)	6.1.1-7.0.0
Oracle Communications	Signaling (Spring Security)	25.1.204	25.1.204
Oracle Financial Services Applications	Installer (Spring Security)	8.1.3.2	8.1.3.2
Oracle Financial Services Applications	Payments Core (Spring Security)	14.5.0-14.8.0
Oracle Financial Services Applications	Reports (Spring Security)	14.5.0.0.0-14.8.0.0.0
Oracle Fusion Middleware	Core (Spring Security)	14.1.2.0.0	14.1.2.0.0

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev

Package Introduced Fixed Last affected

org.springframework.security:spring-security-core 6.4.0 6.4.10 unbounded

org.springframework.security:spring-security-core 6.5.0 6.5.4 unbounded

Package	Introduced	Fixed	Last affected
`org.springframework.security:spring-security-core`	6.4.0	`6.4.10`	unbounded
`org.springframework.security:spring-security-core`	6.5.0	`6.5.4`	unbounded

Products and versions

1 product, 2 version entries

Source	Vendor	Product	Scheme	Affected versions
osv	org.springframework.security	spring-security-core	generic	≥ 6.4.0 and ＜ 6.4.10 · ≥ 6.5.0 and ＜ 6.5.4

Source

Vendor

Product

Scheme

Affected versions

osv

org.springframework.security

spring-security-core

generic

≥ 6.4.0 and ＜ 6.4.10 · ≥ 6.5.0 and ＜ 6.5.4

References

URL	Tags
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/17898	WEB
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/17899	WEB
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/d0f93fa6d8338149943ae640c53db07de827867f	WEB
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/e5694ac7b5e4394b920c6cab48b7bfbd871f84bd	WEB
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security	PACKAGE
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/releases/tag/6.4.10	WEB
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/releases/tag/6.5.4	WEB
https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-41248	WEB

URL

Timeline

Published	2025-09-16	By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified	2026-06-17	NVD's own last-modified date for this record.

Published

2025-09-16

By the CVE Program.

NVD record modified

2026-06-17

NVD's own last-modified date for this record.

How VRT decided (17 of 24 rules ran)

17 of 24 rules ran. The rest didn't run because an earlier rule had already settled the CVE.

# Rule Outcome Status Detail

identity: Does this identifier describe a vulnerability at all? the first rule that matches decides

1 rejected no match CVE Program withdrawal of this identifier

scope: Is it a vulnerability Waratek protects? the first rule that matches decides

2 armr-patch-file no match An ARMR patch file on disk for this CVE

3 armr-secure-rule-file no match An ARMR security-rule template on disk for this CVE

4 manual-classification no match A researcher's recorded decision for this specific CVE

5 manual classification no match Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset

6 non-java-upstream no match A root cause in non-Java code: an OS kernel, a C library, or a bundled runtime

7 oracle-component no match The defect being in a component of a tracked product the agent does not reach: JavaFX, the Java SE installer, the JInitiator browser plug-in, the native WebLogic proxy plug-in, or a native part of Oracle Application Server or Collaboration Suite (HTTP Server, Web Cache, Internet Directory, mail and calendar servers). Oracle gives these no CPE of their own and names them only in the description.

8 java-client-side no match Oracle's own risk-matrix note saying the CVE is reached only through untrusted code in the Java sandbox (applets, Web Start) or only through a client installation of Java, so a server running its own trusted code is not exposed

9 osv-maven matched In scope Maven packages: org.springframework.security:spring-security-core

10 cna-maven-package not reached An affected Maven artifact named by the CNA itself

11 known-cpe-product not reached An NVD CPE naming a product ARMR tracks

12 cna-cpe-product not reached A CPE the CNA published naming a tracked product. Oracle publishes these on advisory day, months before NVD.

13 oracle-advisory-family not reached A tracked product family named in Oracle's own risk matrix. CPE cannot carry a suite name, only a module.

14 cna-named-product not reached A tracked product named in words by the CVE's own CNA, on a record with no CPE yet. Apache and Eclipse publish these on advisory day, before NVD adds CPE data.

15 non-deployable-product not reached The only affected product being a sealed appliance image, where Java runs but no -javaagent can be attached

16 unmatched-product not reached No tracked product matched above, and none present at all

disposition: What do we do about one that is? every rule runs

17 patch-hint no match A reference pointing at the upstream fix: a commit, a PR, a Red Hat bug

18 open-source-maven matched Mitigation candidate Open-source Maven artifact indexed by OSV (Maven packages: org.springframework.security:spring-security-core). The source is public, which makes an ARMR patch rule a candidate; nothing here establishes that one can be written.

19 poc-derivable skipped An indexed exploit clearing the evidence bar to reverse-engineer, where there is no source to read

20 no-exploit skipped Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read

21 secure-rule-match no match A vulnerability class already blocked by an ARMR security rule

22 exploited-no-fix-or-poc skipped Somebody exploiting this CVE (a CISA or VulnCheck KEV listing, or a CISA verdict of active exploitation), with no fix, source code or PoC to build a rule from

23 below-action-threshold no match Severity is HIGH — only MEDIUM/LOW are deprioritized

24 no-exploit-published decided it matched No exploit published No exploit code has been published, and an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds.

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