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Learn moreWe have released Spring Security 4.2.13 to address CVE-2019-11272: PlaintextPasswordEncoder authenticates encoded passwords that are null.
Users are encouraged to update immediately.
With Spring Boot, you can override the Spring Security version in Maven like so:
<properties>
<spring-security.version>4.2.13.RELEASE</spring-security.version>
</properties>
Or in Gradle like so:
ext['spring-security.version'] = '4.2.13.RELEASE'
Note that users of Spring Security 5+ are not affected by this vulnerability.