What is CVE-2019-11272?

CVE-2019-11272 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring Security, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2019-06-26.

How severe is CVE-2019-11272?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-11272 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Auth bypass in Spring Security

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…

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.014 (68.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

security@pivotal.io (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security@pivotal.io (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11272?: CVE-2019-11272 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring Security, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2019-06-26.
How severe is CVE-2019-11272?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-11272 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.