CVE-2019-11272

PlaintextPasswordEncoder authenticates encoded passwords that are null

HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.38 % · percentile 72 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
pivotal
NVD status
Analyzed

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".

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-287 — Improper Authentication
  • CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Spring · Spring Securityaffected 4.2 < 4.2.13.RELEASE

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD