Authentication Bypass with Empty Password in Spring LDAP_CVE-2026-41720

7.4 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-41720

Source vmware

Published Jun 9, 2026 at 03:48

Affected Product

Vendor Spring

Product Spring LDAP

Version 2.4.0

Affected Versions Spring Spring LDAP 2.4.0
Spring Spring LDAP 3.2.0
Spring Spring LDAP 3.3.0
Spring Spring LDAP 4.0.0

CWE Classification

CWE-287

References

spring.io /security/cve-2026-41720

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