CVE-2026-50201
### Summary All Steeltoe actuator endpoints default to `EndpointPermissions.Restricted`, which is mapped to Cloud Foundry's `read_basic_data` permission (granted to Space Auditors and similar low-trust roles). Sensitive actuators including heap dump, environment, and thread dump do not raise this to `EndpointPermissions.Full`, so CF's `read_sensitive_data` permission flag is not enforced for those endpoints. Spring Boot's equivalent Cloud Foundry integration gates these endpoints with `read_sensitive_data` by default. ### Impact Any CF user holding Space Auditor, Space Manager, or Org Auditor role can access the heap dump, environment, and thread dump actuators for any Steeltoe application in their space. A heap dump contains all in-memory data including database passwords, bearer tokens, and VCAP_SERVICES credentials. CF's `read_sensitive_data` permission, which is specifically designed to gate this access, has no effect. ### Affected configuration - Application is deployed on Cloud Foundry with CF actuator and security middleware active (added automatically by `AddAllActuators()` when a CF environment is detected). - The attacker holds a CF role that grants `read_basic_data`: Space Auditor, Space Manager, or Org Auditor. ### Mitigations If an immediate upgrade is not possible: - Explicitly set `RequiredPermissions = EndpointPermissions.Full` in the options for `HeapDumpEndpointOptions`, `EnvironmentEndpointOptions`, and `ThreadDumpEndpointOptions`. - If heap dump, thread dump, or environment are not needed in production, register only the required actuators individually instead of using `AddAllActuators()`.
Properties
- severity
- medium
- summary
- Steeltoe's sensitive actuators (heapdump/env) only require Restricted permission
- epss_score
- 0.00231
- cvss_score
- 6.5
- ghsa_published
- 2026-07-02T20:31:26Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-227r-jm2g-7cp4
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-07-02T20:31:28Z
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-227r-jm2g-7cp4
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-50201
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- epss_percentile
- 0.14186
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