Medium severity · published Apr 10, 2025
CVE-2025-22232
Spring Cloud Config Server May Not Use Vault Token Sent By Clients
5.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Spring Cloud Config Server may not use Vault token sent by clients using a X-CONFIG-TOKEN header when making requests to Vault.
Your application may be affected by this if the following are true:
* You have Spring Vault on the classpath of your Spring Cloud Config Server and
* You are using the X-CONFIG-TOKEN header to send a Vault token to the Spring Cloud Config Server for the Config Server to use when making requests to Vault and
* You are using the default Spring Vault SessionManager implementation LifecycleAwareSessionManager or a SessionManager implementation that persists the Vault token such as SimpleSessionManager.
In this case the SessionManager persists the first token it retrieves and will continue to use that token even if client requests to the Spring Cloud Config Server include a X-CONFIG-TOKEN header with a different value.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
Spring Cloud Config:
* 2.2.1.RELEASE - 4.2.1
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Affected version(s)Fix versionAvailability4.2.x4.2.2OSS4.1.x4.1.6OSS4.0.x4.0.10Commercial3.1.x3.1.10Commercial3.0.x4.1.6OSS2.2.x4.1.6OSS
NOTE: Spring Cloud Config 3.0.x and 2.2.x are no longer under open source or commercial support. Users of these versions are encouraged to upgrade to a supported version.
No other mitigation steps are necessary.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SC
Spring Cloud Config · Spring
4.2.x before 4.2.2; 4.1.x before 4.1.6; 4.0.x before 4.0.10; 3.1.x before 3.1.10; 3.0.x before 4.1.6; 2.2.x before 4.1.6 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22232
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22232
spring.io
https://spring.io/security/cve-2025-22232
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