CVE-2026-41720 (GCVE-0-2026-41720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-09 03:48
Modified
2026-06-10 03:58
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Summary
Spring LDAP's DirContextAuthenticationStrategy implementations do not reject a bind request where a non-empty username is paired with an empty or null password.
Affected versions:
Spring LDAP 2.4.0 through 2.4.4; 3.2.0 through 3.2.17; 3.3.0 through 3.3.7; 4.0.0 through 4.0.3.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Spring LDAP |
Version: 2.4.0 < 2.4.5 Version: 3.2.0 < 3.2.18 Version: 3.3.0 < 3.3.8 Version: 4.0.0 < 4.0.4 |
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