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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-41248"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T10:10:59.953Z"
updatedAt: "2025-09-18T06:29:51.189Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-41248"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-41248.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-41248"
title: "CVE-2025-41248: Spring Security authorization bypass for method security annotations on parameterized types"
summary: "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.\n\nYour application may be affected by this if you are using Spring Security's @EnableMethodSecurity feature.\n\nYou 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.\n\nThis CVE is published in conjunction with  CVE-2025-41249 https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-41249 ."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6.4.x","status":"affected","versionType":"OSS","lessThan":"6.4.11"},{"version":"6.5.x","status":"affected","versionType":"OSS","lessThan":"6.5.5"}],"vendor":"VMware","product":"Spring Security","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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