CVE-2019-11272 vulnerability in Pivotal Software and Other Products
Published on June 26, 2019
PlaintextPasswordEncoder authenticates encoded passwords that are null
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".
Weakness Type
What is an authentification Vulnerability?
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the software does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
CVE-2019-11272 has been classified to as an authentification vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2019-11272
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Affected Versions
Spring Security:- Version 4.2 and below 4.2.13.RELEASE is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.41%
Percentile
60.86%
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