SCA: security update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (GHSA-8v5q-rhf3-jphm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435340

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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 . (CVE-2025-41248)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8v5q-rhf3-jphm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435340

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/17/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-41248

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-41248