# Spring Security authorization bypass for method security annotations on private methods

Advisory record · `GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83` · `CVE-2025-41232`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.1 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-693](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/693.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-693](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-693.md)
- **Published:** 21 May 2025
- **Updated:** 16 Oct 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 21 May 2025, 15:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `org.springframework.security:spring-security-aspects` (Maven): affected `>=6.4.0, <6.4.6`; fixed in `6.4.6`
- `org.springframework.security:spring-security-core` (Maven): affected `>=6.4.0, <6.4.6`; fixed in `6.4.6`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.1 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (vmware)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0063, the 50th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83)
- [OSV: GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41232>
- <https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/bf2aaa1b1830e534ba651d422545ac08a115151b>
- <https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/c972de5369a1261ab674a3f5e3a80e8ce3e8cdfb>
- <https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security>
- <https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/releases/tag/6.4.6>
- <http://spring.io/security/cve-2025-41232>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-9pp5-9c7g-4r83>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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