Impact: Important Public Date: 2019-07-11 CWE: CWE-305 Bugzilla: 1728993: CVE-2019-11272 spring-security-core: mishandling of user passwords allows logging in with a password of NULL 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".
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-11272 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | Low |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky) | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | opendaylight | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | spring-security-core | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | spring-security-core | Under investigation |
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