CVE-2020-5412: VMware Spring Cloud Netflix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 10.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Spring Cloud Netflix, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.4, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.6, and older unsupported versions allow applications to use the Hystrix Dashboard proxy.stream endpoint to make requests to any server reachable by the server hosting the dashboard. A malicious user, or attacker, can send a request to other servers that should not be exposed publicly.

Affected products

• VMware Spring Cloud Netflix: before 2.1.6 (fixed in 2.1.6); from 2.2.0, before 2.2.4 (fixed in 2.2.4)

Published 2020-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.