# CVE-2025-22228: CVE-2025-22228: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length

> CVE-2025-22228: CVE-2025-22228: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length. CVSS 7.4 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-22228
Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:45:45Z

- Published: 2025-03-20 05:49 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:45 UTC · Assigner: vmware
- CVSS: 7.4 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS: 0.61%, 49th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no

## Description

BCryptPasswordEncoder.matches(CharSequence,String) will incorrectly return true for passwords larger than 72 characters as long as the first 72 characters are the same.

## Affected vendors and products

- Spring: Spring Security

## Tracked companies

- [Bitbucket](https://rewindex.com/company/bitbucket.md)
- [Confluence](https://rewindex.com/company/confluence.md)
- [Jira](https://rewindex.com/company/jira.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22228)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22228)
- [https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228](https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22228)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-22228 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-22228.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-22228 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:11:31.642Z