How severe is CVE-2020-5410?

CVE-2020-5410 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 95.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2020-5410: Directory Traversal with

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

VMware Tanzu Spring Cloud Config Directory Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5410

Description

Spring Cloud Config, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.3, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.9, 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 to a directory traversal attack.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.5 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Spring by VMware	Spring Cloud Config	2.1 to <2.1.9 2.2 to <2.2.3

References

1 Links

Other references

https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2020-5410

Record Details

Published

2020-06-02

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

pivotal

Credited to

Related Tool Categories

Tool categories that test for or protect against this vulnerability class.

CWE-23 · Relative Path Traversal

Application Security Tools Penetration Testing Tools

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