CVE-2026-40981

high

Published 2026-05-07 · Modified 2026-05-11

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>=3.1.0,<=3.1.13`
Maven	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>=4.1.0,<=4.1.9`
Maven	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>=4.2.0,<=4.2.6`
Maven	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>=4.3.0,<4.3.3`	`4.3.3`
Maven	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>=5.0.0,<5.0.3`	`5.0.3`
MAVEN	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>= 5.0.0, <= 5.0.2`	`5.0.3`
MAVEN	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>= 4.3.0, <= 4.3.2`	`4.3.3`
MAVEN	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>= 4.2.0, <= 4.2.6`
MAVEN	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>= 4.1.0, <= 4.1.9`
MAVEN	org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config	`>= 3.1.0, <= 3.1.13`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
vmware	spring_cloud_config	`{"startIncluding":"3.1.0","endExcluding":"3.1.14"}`	`3.1.14`

References

CWEs

CWE-639

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.