CVE-2014-0097 Fixed in Spring Security 3.2.2 and 3.1.6

Releases | Rob Winch | March 11, 2014 | ...

Spring Security 3.2.2 (change log) and 3.1.6 (change log) have been released and are available in Maven Central.

Among the highlights, these two releases resolve CVE-2014-0097 which allows a malicious user to impersonate a user with an empty password if ALL of the following hold true:

  • The application is using ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticator
  • The directory allows anonymous binds (not recommended)

NOTE: This does NOT impact users of LdapAuthenticationProvider or <ldap-authentication-provider>

For full details on the releases, please refer to the previously mentioned change logs.

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