GHSA-2ppp-9496-p23q

Insufficient Entropy in Spring Security

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2020-5408
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Spring Security versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.2, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.4, 5.1.x prior to 5.1.10, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16 and 4.2.x prior to 4.2.16 use a fixed null initialization vector with CBC Mode in the implementation of the queryable text encryptor. A malicious user with access to the data that has been encrypted using such an encryptor may be able to derive the unencrypted values using a dictionary attack.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.3.0, fixed 5.3.2
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.2.0, fixed 5.2.4
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.1.0, fixed 5.1.10
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.0.0, fixed 5.0.16
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 0, fixed 4.2.16

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database