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Medium [CVE-2026-59327] Spring Boot: Spring Tools for Eclipse stores the Spring Boot DevTools remote secret (spring.devtools.remote.secret) as a plain str…

This medium-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-59327 affecting Spring Boot.

CVE-2026-59327 Published Jul 30, 2026Updated by vendor Jul 30, 2026

CVE-2026-59327

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Summary

Spring Tools for Eclipse stores the Spring Boot DevTools remote secret (spring.devtools.remote.secret) as a plain string attribute on the "Spring Boot DevTools Client" launch configuration.

Eclipse persists launch configuration attributes as cleartext XML, either to workspace metadata or, if the user marks the configuration as a shared file, directly into the project tree where it can be committed to version control.

This secret is the sole credential protecting the DevTools remote restart/reload endpoint, which accepts and executes arbitrary class bytes on the target application.

Anyone able to read the.launch file (via filesystem access, a workspace backup, or a shared VCS repository) can extract the secret and use it to achieve remote code execution against the associated Spring Boot application. Affected Spring Products and Versions:

Spring Tools for Eclipse: 5.2.0 and earlier

Affected versions

5.2.0

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Fixed versions

No fixed release is recorded yet. That does not prove no patch exists — confirm against the vendor advisory.

NVD record · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

Mitigation

The source record does not include mitigation steps. That is not a statement that no fix exists — read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.

NVD record · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

Sources

Official and corroborating records used to build this advisory.

NVD discovery recordNVD
Independent discovery and scoring cross-reference. Vendor remediation guidance takes precedence. Discovered from the machine-readable feed https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0; this link opens the NVD record for CVE-2026-59327 instead of the raw feed document.
NIST National Vulnerability Database

Cross-references

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CVE-2026-59327NVD CVE.org MITRE

Official resources

Broadcom / VMware Security Advisories (VMSA)
Official documentation
Canonical VMSA portal — full advisory text, response matrix and fixed-version tables.
VMware docs on Broadcom TechDocs
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Official VMware product documentation, including upgrade and patching guides.

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