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CVE-2020-5405
Directory Traversal with spring-cloud-config-server
Medium6.5EPSS 68.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- pivotal
Description
Spring Cloud Config, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.2, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.7, and older unsupported versions allow applications to serve arbitrary configuration 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 a directory traversal attack.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 68.5% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Spring by VMware · Spring Cloud Config
- affected 2.2 – < 2.2.2
- affected 2.1 – < 2.1.7
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-serverGHSA-g86w-v5vg-9gxf (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2020-5405 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g86w-v5vg-9gxf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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