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CVE-2019-11272

Published: Jun 26, 2019

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

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".

Vendor	Product	Versions
Spring	Spring Security	affected `4.2 - < 4.2.13.RELEASE`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272

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[debian-lts-announce] 20190709 [SECURITY] [DLA 1848-1] libspring-security-2.0-java security update

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