Improper Authentication Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-core package, versions [4.2.0.RELEASE,4.2.13.RELEASE)
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- published 21 Jun 2019
- disclosed 19 Jun 2019
- credit Tim Buthe, Daniel Neagaru
Introduced: 19 Jun 2019
CVE-2019-11272 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-core
to version 4.2.13.RELEASE or higher.
Overview
org.springframework.security:spring-security-core is a package that provides security services for the Spring IO Platform.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. The affected 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
.