High severity · published Jun 26, 2019
CVE-2019-11272
Spring Security, versions 4.2.x up to 4.2.12, and older unsupported versions support plain text passwords using PlaintextPasswordEncoder
7.3
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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".
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
SS
Spring Security · Vmware
before 4.2.13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11272
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11272
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html
Vendor Advisory
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272
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