Candidate: CVE-2019-11272 PublicDate: 2019-06-26 14:15:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11272 https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/b2d4fec3617c497c5a8eb9c7e5270e0c7db293ee Description: 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". Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Mitigation: Bugs: Priority: medium Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L [7.3 HIGH] nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L [7.3 HIGH] Patches_libspring-security-2.0-java: upstream_libspring-security-2.0-java: needs-triage precise/esm_libspring-security-2.0-java: DNE trusty_libspring-security-2.0-java: ignored (out of standard support) trusty/esm_libspring-security-2.0-java: DNE xenial_libspring-security-2.0-java: DNE bionic_libspring-security-2.0-java: DNE focal_libspring-security-2.0-java: DNE devel_libspring-security-2.0-java: DNE