CVE-2019-11272 Information

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

Reference

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

7.3