CVE-2020-5405

mediumpriority · attend · 60EPSS 0.685 · 99 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

68.5% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22USCWE-23USCWE-23US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

shoucheng3/spring-cloud__spring-cloud-config_CVE-2020-5405_2-1-6-RELEASEshoucheng3/spring-cloud__spring-cloud-config_CVE-2020-5405_2-1-6-RELEASEPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Spring by VMware Spring Cloud Config2.1 → 2.1.7enisa_euvdEU
Spring by VMware Spring Cloud Config2.2 → 2.2.2enisa_euvdEU
vmware spring cloud config2.1.0 → 2.1.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware spring cloud config2.2.0 → 2.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server2.1.0 → 2.1.7osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.cloud/spring-cloud-config-server
Maven org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server2.2.0 → 2.2.2osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.cloud/spring-cloud-config-server

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-g86w-v5vg-9gxfDirectory traversal attack in Spring Cloud Config2020-06-05ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-03-05modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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