What is CVE-2020-5427?

CVE-2020-5427 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring By VMware Cloud Data Flow, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2021-01-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-5427?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Spring By VMware Cloud Data Flow

CVE-2020-5427

In Spring Cloud Data Flow, versions 2.6.x prior to 2.6.5, versions 2.5.x prior 2.5.4, an application is vulnerable to SQL injection when requesting task execution.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2021-01-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 63.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Spring By VMware Cloud Data Flow — versions 2.6, 2.5
VMware Spring Cloud Data Flow

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2020-5427 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5427?: CVE-2020-5427 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring By VMware Cloud Data Flow, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2021-01-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-5427?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.