GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5

Insufficiently Protected Credentials and Improper Authentication in Spring Security

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2019-11272
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

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?.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 0, fixed 4.2.13
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-casintroduced 0, fixed 4.2.13.RELEASE

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database