What is CVE-2026-40982?

CVE-2026-40982 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Spring Cloud Config, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2026-05-07.

How severe is CVE-2026-40982?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Spring Cloud Config

CVE-2026-40982

Spring Cloud Config allows applications to serve arbitrary text and binary 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 to a directory tr…

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.001 (34.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Spring Cloud Config — versions 3.1.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0
Vmware Spring_cloud_config

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

security@vmware.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-40982?: CVE-2026-40982 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Spring Cloud Config, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2026-05-07.
How severe is CVE-2026-40982?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.