GHSA-2mh5-3cw6-hrrqHighCVSS 7.5

Spring Cloud Config has an Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Published
May 7, 2026
Last Modified
June 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-40981 →

📋 Description

When using Google Secrets Manager as a backend for the Spring Cloud Config server a client can craft a request to the config server potentially exposing secrets from unintended GCP projects. 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.

🎯 Affected products5

  • maven/org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server:>= 3.1.0, <= 3.1.13
  • maven/org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server:>= 4.1.0, <= 4.1.9
  • maven/org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server:>= 4.2.0, <= 4.2.6
  • maven/org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server:>= 4.3.0, <= 4.3.2
  • maven/org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server:>= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.2

🔗 References (3)