Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2026-40981

33
FAUCET Score

When using Google Secrets Manager as a backend for the Spring Cloud Config server a client can craft a request to the config server potentially exposing secrets from unintended GCP projects. 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.

First published: May 7, 2026Last modified: May 7, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.1.0, < 3.1.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.3.0, < 4.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-serverFixed in: 4.3.3
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-serverFixed in: 5.0.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-2mh5-3cw6-hrrqhigh

Spring Cloud Config has an Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

May 7, 2026

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2026-40981
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.access.redhat.com / data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40981.json
spring.io / security/cve-2026-40981
Vendor Advisory