Improper Authentication in Spring Security

GHSA-gv9v-c375-hvmg · CVE-2014-0097

Published May 13, 2022 · Modified Nov 8, 2023

Description

The ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticator in Spring Security 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 and 3.1.0 to 3.1.5 does not check the password length. If the directory allows anonymous binds then it may incorrectly authenticate a user who supplies an empty password.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0097
WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/7dbb8e777ece8675f3333a1ef1cb4d6b9be80395
WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/88559882e967085c47a7e1dcbc4dc32c2c796868
WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/a7005bd74241ac8e2e7b38ae31bc4b0f641ef973
WEB https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SEC-2500
WEB https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2014-0097
WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

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