CVE-2019-11272: vulnerability in Spring Security
PlaintextPasswordEncoder authenticates encoded passwords that are null
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.4%
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 products
Spring · Spring SecurityRelated CVEs — Spring Security
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