CVE-2020-5410

HIGH7.5⚠ KEVEPSS 94.3%

Directory traversal attack in Spring Cloud Config

Published: 6/5/2020Modified: 10/22/2025Added to CISA KEV: 3/25/2022

Description

Spring Cloud Config, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.3, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.9, 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 to a directory traversal attack.

Affected packages (1)

Maven/org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server>= 2.1.0, < 2.1.9

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:H

References (4)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5410
PATCHhttps://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config
WEBhttps://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2020-5410
WEBhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-5410