Vulnerability · Published Apr 22, 2026 · Assigned by vmware

CVE-2026-22748Potential Security Misconfiguration when Using withIssuerLocation

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity improper input validation in Spring Security from Spring. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. When an application configures JWT decoding with NimbusJwtDecoder or NimbusReactiveJwtDecoder, it must configure an OAuth2TokenValidator<Jwt> separately, for example by calling setJwtValidator.This issue affects Spring Security: from 6.3.0 through 6.3.14, from 6.4.0 through 6.4.14, from 6.5.0 through 6.5.9, from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Maven	org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-jose	no fix listed	GHSA-cvc6-q2cp-2xhw
Maven	org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-jose	no fix listed	GHSA-cvc6-q2cp-2xhw
Maven	org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-jose	6.5.10	GHSA-cvc6-q2cp-2xhw
Maven	org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-jose	7.0.5	GHSA-cvc6-q2cp-2xhw

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Spring	Spring Security	6.3.0 – through 6.3.146.4.0 – through 6.4.146.5.0 – through 6.5.97.0.0 – through 7.0.4

Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22748