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High · 7.4 CVE-2026-41720 EUVD-2026-35324GHSA-jrv5-8w28-4265

Authentication Bypass with Empty Password in Spring LDAP

Published Jun 9, 2026 · Updated Jun 23, 2026 · Assigned by vmware

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Spring Spring LDAP 2.4.0 – < 2.4.5, 3.2.0 – < 3.2.18, 3.3.0 – < 3.3.7.1, 4.0.0 – < 4.0.3.1 2.4.5

Affected packages

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