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 .
{ "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-289", "CWE-863" ], "github_reviewed_at": "2025-09-16T19:34:33Z", "nvd_published_at": "2025-09-16T11:15:30Z" }