CVE-2019-11272

Spring Security, versions 4.2.x up to 4.2.12, and older unsupported versions support plain text passwords using PlaintextPasswordEncoder. If an application using an affected version of Spring Security is leveraging PlaintextPasswordEncoder and a user has a null encoded password, a malicious user (or attacker) can authenticate using a password of "null".

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.3 High

Status

Analyzed - security@pivotal.io

Published

2019-06-26

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-287, CWE-522

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Spring Security (Spring)
• Spring Security (Vmware)

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272