Cryptographic Weakness Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-crypto package, versions [5.3.0.RELEASE, 5.3.2.RELEASE) [5.2.0.RELEASE, 5.2.4.RELEASE) [5.1.0.RELEASE, 5.1.10.RELEASE) [5.0.0.RELEASE, 5.0.16.RELEASE) [4.2.0.RELEASE, 4.2.16.RELEASE)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.14% (49th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORKSECURITY-570203
  • published 22 May 2020
  • disclosed 14 May 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-crypto to version 5.3.2.RELEASE, 5.2.4.RELEASE, 5.1.10.RELEASE, 5.0.16.RELEASE, 4.2.16.RELEASE or higher.

Overview

org.springframework.security:spring-security-crypto is a spring-security-crypto library for Spring Security.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cryptographic Weakness. Spring Security was found to be a fixed null initialization vector with CBC Mode in the implementation of the queryable text encryptor. A malicious user with access to the data that has been encrypted using such an encryptor may be able to derive the unencrypted values using a dictionary attack.