Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-40982
Spring Cloud Config allows applications to serve arbitrary text and binary 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.
Spring Cloud Config 3.1.x: affected from 3.1.0 through 3.1.13 (inclusive); upgrade to 3.1.14 or greater (Enterprise Support Only). Spring Cloud Config 4.1.x: affected from 4.1.0 through 4.1.9 (inclusive); upgrade to 4.1.10 or greater (Enterprise Support Only). Spring Cloud Config 4.2.x: affected from 4.2.0 through 4.2.6 (inclusive); upgrade to 4.2.7 or greater (Enterprise Support Only). Spring Cloud Config 4.3.x: affected from 4.3.0 through 4.3.2 (inclusive); upgrade to 4.3.3 or greater. Spring Cloud Config 5.0.x: affected from 5.0.0 through 5.0.2 (inclusive); upgrade to 5.0.3 or greater.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 37.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.1
Products affected by CVE-2026-40982
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.10
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:3.1.9
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:4.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:5.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:5.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config:5.0.2