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Advisory record · GHSA-6g23-24mc-hx6x

Spring Cloud Config vulnerable to Path Traversal

CVSS 9.1 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0073 · 54th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 7 May 2026, 06:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-serverMaven<=3.1.13 || >=4.1.0, <=4.1.9 || >=4.2.0, <=4.2.6 || >=4.3.0, <4.3.3 || >=5.0.0, <5.0.34.3.3, 5.0.3
Identifiers
GHSA-6g23-24mc-hx6x · CVE-2026-40982
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Tags
Published
7 May 2026
Updated
11 Jun 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Spring Cloud Config Server (spring-cloud-config-server) is vulnerable to path traversal in versions 3.1.0 through 3.1.13, 4.1.0 through 4.1.9, 4.2.0 through 4.2.6, 4.3.0 through 4.3.2, and 5.0.0 through 5.0.2. An attacker who can send a specially crafted request to the server can read arbitrary text and binary files. Upgrade to 4.3.3 or 5.0.3; for 3.1.x and 4.1.x and 4.2.x branches, the source lists fixed versions only under Enterprise Support.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.1 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0073, the 54th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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