Spring Security, versions 4.2.x up to 4.2.12, and older unsupported versions support plain text passwords using PlaintextPasswordEncoder. If an application using an affected version of Spring Security is leveraging PlaintextPasswordEncoder and a user has a null encoded password, a malicious user (or attacker) can authenticate using a password of "null".

The version of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (formerly IBM Rational DOORS) installed on the remote host is 9.6.1.1 prior or equal to 9.6.1.13 or 9.7.2.1 prior or equal to 9.7.2.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 7279145 advisory.

  - IBM DOORS Web Access do not limit the length of a connection which could allow for a Slowloris HTTP denial     of service attack to take place. This can cause the web server to become unresponsive. (CVE-2024-25039)

  - IBM DOORS Web Access is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated     attacker to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality     potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. (CVE-2025-0152)

  - IBM DOORS Web Access could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information when a detailed     technical error message is returned in the browser. This information could be used in further attacks     against the system. (CVE-2020-4984)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Spring Security, versions 4.2.x up to 4.2.12, and older unsupported versions support plain text passwords
    using PlaintextPasswordEncoder. If an application using an affected version of Spring Security is
    leveraging PlaintextPasswordEncoder and a user has a null encoded password, a malicious user (or attacker)
    can authenticate using a password of "null". (CVE-2019-11272)

Spring Security support plain text passwords using PlaintextPasswordEncoder. If an application using an affected version of Spring Security is leveraging PlaintextPasswordEncoder and a user has a null encoded password, a malicious user (or attacker) can authenticate using a password of 'null'.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.7.RELEASE-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libspring-security-2.0-java packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
333335	IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS 9.6.1.1 <= 9.6.1.13 / 9.7.2.1 < 9.7.2.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities (7279145)	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
422944	SCA: security update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-cas, org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
422944	SCA: security update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-cas, org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (GHSA-v33x-prhc-gph5)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
126605	Debian DLA-1848-1 : libspring-security-2.0-java security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high

Detections

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CVE-2019-11272

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Tenable Plugins

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