Timing Attack Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-core package, versions [5.7.0,7.0.7)[7.1.0,7.1.1)
Threat Intelligence
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- published26 Aug 2026
- disclosed20 Aug 2026
- creditAndrey Litvitski
Introduced: 20 Aug 2026
NewCVE-2026-59276 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-core to version 7.0.7, 7.1.1 or higher.
Overview
org.springframework.security:spring-security-core is a package that provides security services for the Spring IO Platform.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via the comparison of sensitive values using standard string equality rather than constant-time comparison in DigestAuthenticationFilter, KeyBasedPersistenceTokenService, BalloonHashingPassword4jPasswordEncoder, Pbkdf2Password4jPasswordEncoder, and InMemoryOAuth2AuthorizationService. An attacker can recover secret values such as password hashes, authentication digests, verification keys, or OAuth2 token values by submitting a large number of requests and precisely measuring response times. This is only exploitable if an attacker can make a very large number of requests with low network jitter and precise timing measurements.