What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-22234?

CVE-2025-22234 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium). CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.0%.

Which versions of Red Hat are affected by CVE-2025-22234?

CVE-2025-22234 presents moderate security risk rated CVSS 5.3. Exploitation could compromise the security of affected deployments.. A patch is available.

How to fix or mitigate CVE-2025-22234?

Within 30 days: Identify affected systems and apply vendor patches as part of regular patch cycle. Monitor vendor channels for patch availability.

Red Hat CVE-2025-22234

MEDIUM

Observable Timing Discrepancy (CWE-208)

2026-01-22 security@vmware.com

GHSA-vqxh-445g-37fc

Information Disclosure Red Hat

5.3

CVSS 3.1 · NVD

Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY

5.3 MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Red Hat

5.3 MEDIUM

qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Lifecycle Timeline

Patch released

Mar 31, 2026 - 21:13 nvd

Patch available

Analysis Generated

Mar 12, 2026 - 21:54 vuln.today

CVE Published

Jan 22, 2026 - 21:15 nvd

MEDIUM 5.3

Blast Radius

ecosystem impact

† from your stack dependencies † transitive graph · vuln.today resolves 4-path depth

117 maven packages depend on org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (24 direct, 93 indirect)

Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 6.3.8.

DescriptionCVE.org

The fix applied in CVE-2025-22228 inadvertently broke the timing attack mitigation implemented in DaoAuthenticationProvider. This can allow attackers to infer valid usernames or other authentication behavior via response-time differences under certain configurations.