Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-22746

Title: Spring Security timing attack bypass in DaoAuthenticationProvider

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2026-22746.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 22, 2026

Modified Date Apr 24, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.7 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.22%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-22746: Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. If an application is using the UserDetails#isEnabled, #isAccountNonExpired, or #isAccountNonLocked user attributes, to enable, expire, or lock users, then DaoAuthenticationProvider's timing attack defense can be bypassed for users who are disabled, expired, or locked.This issue affects Spring Security: from 5.7.0 through 5.7.22, from 5.8.0 through 5.8.24, from 6.3.0 through 6.3.15, from 6.5.0 through 6.5.9, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

Impacted Vendors

vmware 1

webauthn4j 1

Reference Links

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22746

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.7

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns