{"id":"CVE-2019-11272","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-11272","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T02:04:30.737Z","title":"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\".","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\".","published":"2019-06-26T14:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:12:39.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@pivotal.io","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-287","CWE-522"],"affected":["vmware/spring security","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01382,"percentile":0.72011,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.38%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@pivotal.io"},{"url":"https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@pivotal.io"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00008.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-11272","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11272","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}