CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5408

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-05-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-05-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-329, CWE-330

Description

Spring Security versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.2, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.4, 5.1.x prior to 5.1.10, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16 and 4.2.x prior to 4.2.16 use 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.

Affected configurations

• pivotal software spring security (>= 5.2.0 < 5.2.4) • pivotal software spring security (>= 5.3.0 < 5.3.2) • vmware spring security (>= 4.2.0 < 4.2.16) • vmware spring security (>= 5.0.0 < 5.0.16) • vmware spring security (>= 5.1.0 < 5.1.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-329 Generation of Predictable IV with CBC Mode weakness
  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-1204 Generation of Weak Initialization Vector (IV) weakness
  • CWE-329 Generation of Predictable IV with CBC Mode weakness

References