Critical [CVE-2026-40982] Spring Cloud Config allows applications to serve arbitrary text and binary files through the spring-cloud-config-server module
This critical-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-40982 affecting Spring Cloud.
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Summary
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).
- 3.1.0
- 3.1.13
- 4.1.0
- 4.1.9
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.6
- 4.3.0
- 4.3.2
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.2
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- 3.1.14
- 4.1.10
- 4.2.7
- 4.3.3
- 5.0.3
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 3.1.14, 4.1.10, 4.2.7, 4.3.3, 5.0.3. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
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