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CVE-2026-40982

39
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 7, 2026Last modified: May 10, 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

9.1CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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-6g23-24mc-hx6xcritical

Spring Cloud Config vulnerable to Path Traversal

May 7, 2026

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2026-40982
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.access.redhat.com / data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40982.json
spring.io / security/cve-2026-40982
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