Vulnerability Database

289,697

Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2019-11272

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".

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.3
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P