CVE-2026-41720

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 17 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.26% (17th) EPSS

CVSS 7.4 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.4

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · security@vmware.comexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.2

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-287USCWE-287US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Spring Spring LDAP2.4.0 → 2.4.5enisa_euvdEU
Spring Spring LDAP3.2.0 → 3.2.18enisa_euvdEU
Spring Spring LDAP3.3.0 → 3.3.7.1enisa_euvdEU
Spring Spring LDAP4.0.0 → 4.0.3.1enisa_euvdEU
Maven org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core≤ 2.4.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core
Maven org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core3.2.0 → 3.2.16osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core
Maven org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core3.3.0 → 3.3.8osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core
Maven org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core4.0.0 → 4.0.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-jrv5-8w28-4265Spring LDAP has Authentication Bypass with Empty Password2026-06-09ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-06-09modified 2026-07-23

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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