CVE-2012-5055
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Spring Security
EPSS 0.36%
Description
DaoAuthenticationProvider in VMware SpringSource Spring Security before 2.0.8, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.3 does not check the password if the user is not found, which makes the response delay shorter and might allow remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames via a series of login requests.
How to fix CVE-2012-5055
To remediate CVE-2012-5055, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Maven/org.springframework.security:spring-security-core—upgrade to 2.0.8 or later
Is CVE-2012-5055 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.0.8