CVE-2019-3795

Q: How do I fix CVE-2019-3795?

Upgrade spring security to 5.1.5 or later.

Q: Is CVE-2019-3795 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2019-3795 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 1.9% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 78% of all scored CVEs.

Q: How severe is CVE-2019-3795?

CVE-2019-3795 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3, rated medium. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

Q: What does CVE-2019-3795 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for spring security (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

MEDIUMEPSS 78th pctl

5.3

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Spring Security versions 4.2.x prior to 4.2.12, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.12, and 5.1.x prior to 5.1.5 contain an insecure randomness vulnerability when using SecureRandomFactoryBean#setSeed to configure a SecureRandom instance. In order to be impacted, an honest application must provide a seed and make the resulting random material available to an attacker for inspection.

CWE-330

How to fix

Remediation Available

spring securityNVD

Affected:>= 5.1.0, < 5.1.5Fixed in:5.1.5CVE-2019-3795derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

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

Exploit Intelligence

1.88%probability of exploitation in 30 days

78thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 78% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

pivotal.io

Third-Party Advisory2

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-330 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2019-5420	Critical	9.8	92%	-	Fix
CVE-2021-34646	Critical	9.8	51%	-	-
CVE-2008-0087	High	7.5	32%	-	-
CVE-2017-6026	Critical	9.1	32%	-	-
CVE-2018-17888	Critical	9.8	30%	-	-
CVE-2020-11901	Critical	9.0	21%	-	Fix

Common questions

How do I fix CVE-2019-3795?

Upgrade spring security to 5.1.5 or later.

Is CVE-2019-3795 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2019-3795 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 1.9% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 78% of all scored CVEs.

How severe is CVE-2019-3795?

CVE-2019-3795 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3, rated medium. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

What does CVE-2019-3795 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for spring security (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.