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CVE-2019-11272

PlaintextPasswordEncoder authenticates encoded passwords that are null PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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".

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Spring / Spring Securityaffected 4.2 before 4.2.13.RELEASE

CWE

CWE-287

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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