Use of Insufficiently Random Values The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libspring-security-2.0-java  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBSPRINGSECURITY20JAVA-569223
  • published18 May 2020
  • disclosed14 May 2020

Introduced: 14 May 2020

CVE-2020-5408  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libspring-security-2.0-java package and not the libspring-security-2.0-java package as distributed by Debian.

Spring Security versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.2, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.4, 5.1.x prior to 5.1.10, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16 and 4.2.x prior to 4.2.16 use a fixed null initialization vector with CBC Mode in the implementation of the queryable text encryptor. A malicious user with access to the data that has been encrypted using such an encryptor may be able to derive the unencrypted values using a dictionary attack.