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CVE-2026-41720 (GCVE-0-2026-41720)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 03:48 – Updated: 2026-06-23 20:47
VLAI
Title
Authentication Bypass with Empty Password in Spring LDAP
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.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-09 00:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Spring Spring LDAP Affected: 2.4.0 , < 2.4.5 (custom)
Affected: 3.2.0 , < 3.2.18 (custom)
Affected: 3.3.0 , < 3.3.7.1 (custom)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.3.1 (custom)
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