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CVE-2020-5408

Dictionary attack with Spring Security queryable text encryptor PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Spring Security versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.2, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.4, 5.1.x prior to 5.1.10, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16 and 4.2.x prior to 4.2.16 use a fixed null initialization vector with CBC Mode in the implementation of the queryable text encryptor. A malicious user with access to the data that has been encrypted using such an encryptor may be able to derive the unencrypted values using a dictionary attack.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Spring by VMware / Spring Securityaffected 4.2 before 4.2.16; affected 5.0 before 5.0.16; affected 5.1 before 5.1.10; affected 5.2 before 5.2.4; affected 5.3 before 5.3.2

CWE

CWE-329

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.