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Advisory details: github_osv / GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5
Advisory ID github_osv/GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5
Aliases CVE-2019-11272
Summary Insufficiently Protected Credentials and Improper Authentication in Spring Security 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?.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.6
Risk 3.3
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.3 https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/06/GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5/GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5.json
generic_textual HIGH
Reference id Reference type URL
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html
CVE-2019-11272 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11272
CVE-2019-11272 https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/06/GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5/GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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none

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There are no SSVC decisions available.