Medium severity · published Apr 9, 2019
CVE-2019-3795
Spring Security versions 4.2.x prior to 4.2.12, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.12, and 5.1.x prior to 5.1.5 contain an insecure randomness vulnerability when using…
5.3
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Spring Security versions 4.2.x prior to 4.2.12, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.12, and 5.1.x prior to 5.1.5 contain an insecure randomness vulnerability when using SecureRandomFactoryBean#setSeed to configure a SecureRandom instance. In order to be impacted, an honest application must provide a seed and make the resulting random material available to an attacker for inspection.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% 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
4.2.0 before 4.2.12; 5.0.0 before 5.0.12; 5.1.0 before 5.1.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3795
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3795
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107802
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00026.html
Vendor Advisory
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-3795
More from Debian Linux
10.0
CVE-2025-32433
Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerable to Pre-Authentication RCE
10.0
CVE-2025-24201
Apple Multiple Products WebKit Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability
10.0
CVE-2021-44228
Apache Log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints
10.0
CVE-2015-3306
ProFTPD Improper Access Control Vulnerability
9.8
CVE-2026-24061
GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Vulnerability