CVE-2020-5410

unknown KEV

Published 2020-06-05 · Modified 2022-03-25

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.5

Description

Spring, by VMware Tanzu, Cloud Config contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows applications to serve arbitrary configuration files.

CISA KEV

Vendor: VMware Tanzu
Product: Spring Cloud Configuration (Config) Server
Due date: 2022-04-15

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

99%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/springcloud_directory_traversal rank 300

Directory Traversal in Spring Cloud Config Server

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server	`>=2.1.0,<2.1.9`	`2.1.9`
Maven	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server	`>=2.2.0,<2.2.3`	`2.2.3`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.