Advisory Weakness Curation

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?.

Improper Authentication Spring Security support plain text passwords using `PlaintextPasswordEncoder`. a malicious user (or attacker) can authenticate using a password of `null`.

PlaintextPasswordEncoder authenticates encoded passwords that are null Spring Security supports plain text passwords using `PlaintextPasswordEncoder`. a malicious user (or attacker) can authenticate using a password of `null`.

Unverified Password Change Spring Security support plain text passwords using `PlaintextPasswordEncoder`. a malicious user (or attacker) can authenticate using a password of `null`.