CVE-2019-11272

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-11272
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-06-26 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-08 18:21:00 UTC
DescriptionSpring 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".

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-522

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Pivotal Software Spring Security All All All All
Application Vmware Spring Security All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 1848-1] libspring-security-2.0-java security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2019-11272: PlaintextPasswordEncoder authenticates encoded passwords that are null | Security | Pivotal CONFIRM pivotal.io Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982339 Java (maven) Security Update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5)
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