Detections
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CVE-2019-11272
high
Description
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".
References
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html