high7.5Known exploited
CVE-2020-5410
VMware Tanzu Spring Cloud Config Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-03-25. Federal due date: 2022-04-15.
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Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Vmware | Spring Cloud Config | from 2.1.0 before 2.1.9 from 2.2.0 before 2.2.3 |