title: Directory Traversal with spring-cloud-config-server
description: Spring Cloud Config, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.3, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.9, and older unsupported versions 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 to a directory traversal attack.
problem types: CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal
affected:
{
product: Spring Cloud Config
vendor: Spring by VMware
versions:
lessThan: 2.1.9, status: affected, version: 2.1, versionType: custom
lessThan: 2.2.3, status: affected, version: 2.2, versionType: custom
}