CVE-2026-22753

Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. If an application is using securityMatchers(String) and a PathPatternRequestMatcher.Builder bean to prepend a servlet path, matching requests to that filter chain may fail and its related security components will not be exercised as intended by the application. This can lead to the authentication, authorization, and other security controls being rendered inactive on intended requests.This issue affects Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22753	Mitigation Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-04-22 06:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:20

NVD link : CVE-2026-22753

Mitre link : CVE-2026-22753

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-22753

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Products Affected

vmware

spring_security

CWE

CWE-693

Protection Mechanism Failure

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