CVE-2019-11272: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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".

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• VMware Spring Security: before 4.2.13 (fixed in 4.2.13)

Published 2019-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.