GHSA-jrv5-8w28-4265
Spring LDAP has Authentication Bypass with Empty Password
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-41720
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
Spring LDAP's DirContextAuthenticationStrategy implementations do not reject a bind request where a non-empty username is paired with an empty or null password. Affected versions: Spring LDAP 2.4.0 through 2.4.4; 3.2.0 through 3.2.17; 3.3.0 through 3.3.7; 4.0.0 through 4.0.3.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Maven · org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core | introduced 4.0.0, fixed 4.0.4 |
| Maven · org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core | introduced 3.3.0, fixed 3.3.8 |
| Maven · org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core | introduced 3.2.0, last affected 3.2.16 |
| Maven · org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core | introduced 0, last affected 2.4.4 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41720 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/issues/407 WEB
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/commit/30b90c9fb61af87208ed051fc31349ef4d418f75 WEB
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/commit/5cc73a6b7fb1d2bcb950c4d69221c6d192d79795 WEB
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/commit/e2748d44bdce4f6cb4663b9b8d8462e34808f09c WEB
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap PACKAGE
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/releases/tag/3.3.8 WEB
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/releases/tag/4.0.4 WEB
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41720 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |