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Spring LDAP has Authentication Bypass with Empty Password
Spring LDAP has Authentication Bypass with Empty Password
Affected packages
- org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core— 4.0.0 → 4.0.4
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
- 0.26%
- EPSS percentile
- 17.2%
EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs. This advisory is in the top 17%.
Sources
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41720
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/issues/407
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/commit/30b90c9fb61af87208ed051fc31349ef4d418f75
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/commit/5cc73a6b7fb1d2bcb950c4d69221c6d192d79795
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/commit/e2748d44bdce4f6cb4663b9b8d8462e34808f09c
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/releases/tag/3.3.8
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/releases/tag/4.0.4
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41720
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jrv5-8w28-4265
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