CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2019-11272

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".

7.5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.3 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272 Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2019-06-26 02:15

Updated : 2021-06-08 06:21

NVD link : CVE-2019-11272

Mitre link : CVE-2019-11272

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-522