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CVE-2026-40982

Spring / Spring Cloud Config PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Spring Cloud Config allows applications to serve arbitrary text and binary files through the spring-cloud-config-server module. A malicious user, or attacker, can send a request using a specially crafted URL that can lead to a directory traversal attack. Spring Cloud Config 3.1.x: affected from 3.1.0 through 3.1.13 (inclusive); upgrade to 3.1.14 or greater (Enterprise Support Only). Spring Cloud Config 4.1.x: affected from 4.1.0 through 4.1.9 (inclusive); upgrade to 4.1.10 or greater (Enterprise Support Only). Spring Cloud Config 4.2.x: affected from 4.2.0 through 4.2.6 (inclusive); upgrade to 4.2.7 or greater (Enterprise Support Only). Spring Cloud Config 4.3.x: affected from 4.3.0 through 4.3.2 (inclusive); upgrade to 4.3.3 or greater. Spring Cloud Config 5.0.x: affected from 5.0.0 through 5.0.2 (inclusive); upgrade to 5.0.3 or greater.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Spring / Spring Cloud Configaffected 3.1.0 before 3.1.14; affected 4.1.0 before 4.1.10; affected 4.2.0 before 4.2.7; affected 4.3.0 before 4.3.3; affected 5.0.0 before 5.0.3

CWE

CWE-22

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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redhat-SADP

A flaw was found in Spring Cloud Config. A remote attacker can exploit a directory traversal vulnerability by sending a specially crafted URL to the spring-cloud-config-server module. This allows the attacker to access arbitrary text and binary files on the system.