CVE-2026-22739
HIGH8.6EPSS 9.7%Spring Cloud Config Server: Path Traversal via Profile Parameter Allows Arbitrary File Access
Published: 3/24/2026Modified: 3/26/2026
Also known as:GHSA-3qwq-q9vm-5j42
Description
Vulnerability in Spring Cloud when substituting the profile parameter from a request made to the Spring Cloud Config Server configured to the native file system as a backend, because it was possible to access files outside of the configured search directories.This issue affects Spring Cloud: from 3.1.X before 3.1.13, from 4.1.X before 4.1.9, from 4.2.X before 4.2.3, from 4.3.X before 4.3.2, from 5.0.X before 5.0.2.
Affected packages (1)
- Maven/org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server>= 4.3.0, < 4.3.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22739
- PATCHhttps://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config/commit/1870f07befd5f62edcfdaea5ad82441d0fd49912
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config/releases/tag/v4.3.2
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config/releases/tag/v5.0.2
- WEBhttps://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22739