cve-2025-41232
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-21 10:23
Modified
2025-05-22 03:55
Severity ?
Summary
CVE-2025-41232: Spring Security authorization bypass for method security annotations on private methods
Impacted products
SpringSpring Security
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