CVE-2020-5405: Path Traversal

March 5, 2020 (updated March 7, 2020)

Spring Cloud Config 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 a directory traversal attack.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5405
pivotal.io/security/cve-2020-5405

Code Behaviors & Features

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