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CVE-2026-40981 (GCVE-0-2026-40981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-07 03:55 – Updated: 2026-07-15 01:00

Summary

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-07 12:57 UTC

CWE

CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CWE-1220 - Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40981
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40981	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467621	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/v…	x_sadp-csaf-vex

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Spring	Spring Cloud Config	Affected: 3.1.0 , < 3.1.14 (custom) Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.10 (custom) Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.7 (custom) Affected: 4.3.0 , < 4.3.3 (custom) Affected: 5.0.0 , < 5.0.3 (custom)	guessed
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack	cpe:/a:redhat:jbosseapxp

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CERTFR-2026-AVI-0543

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: 2026-05-07 - Updated: 2026-05-07

De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Spring Cloud Config. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une atteinte à la confidentialité des données, un contournement de la politique de sécurité et un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.

Solutions

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
Spring	Cloud Config	Cloud Config versions 4.3.x antérieures à 4.3.3
Spring	Cloud Config	Cloud Config versions 4.2.x antérieures à 4.2.7
Spring	Cloud Config	Cloud Config versions 5.0.x antérieures à 5.0.3
Spring	Cloud Config	Cloud Config versions 4.1.x antérieures à 4.1.10
Spring	Cloud Config	Cloud Config versions antérieures à 3.1.14

References

Title

Publication Time

FKIE_CVE-2026-40981

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-07 04:16 - Updated: 2026-07-15 02:21

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

References

URL	Tags
security@vmware.com	https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-40981	Vendor Advisory
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40981
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467621
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c	https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40981.json

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
vmware	spring_cloud_config	*
vmware	spring_cloud_config	*
vmware	spring_cloud_config	*
vmware	spring_cloud_config	*
vmware	spring_cloud_config	*

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GHSA-2MH5-3CW6-HRRQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-07 06:31 – Updated: 2026-06-11 14:48

Summary

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

Details

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

Show details on source website

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WID-SEC-W-2026-1399

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2026-05-06 22:00 - Updated: 2026-05-06 22:00

Summary

VMware Tanzu Spring Cloud Config: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Severity

Hoch

Scope

4 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2026-40981.

CVE-2026-40981

Known affected: 5 products

Open the full advisory

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.

Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.

Action not permitted

CVE-2026-40981 (GCVE-0-2026-40981)

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0543

Solutions

FKIE_CVE-2026-40981

GHSA-2MH5-3CW6-HRRQ

WID-SEC-W-2026-1399

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature

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