CVE-2025-41243

CRITICAL NUCLEI

Spring Cloud Gateway Server Webflux - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2025-41243. PoCs published by SFN233. A Nuclei detection template is also available.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository provides a lab setup for CVE-2025-41243, a SpEL expression injection vulnerability in Spring Cloud Gateway that allows RCE when Actuator endpoints are enabled. It includes instructions for launching a Docker environment and reproducing the exploit.

Description

Spring Cloud Gateway Server Webflux may be vulnerable to Spring Environment property modification. An application should be considered vulnerable when all the following are true: * The application is using Spring Cloud Gateway Server Webflux (Spring Cloud Gateway Server WebMVC is not vulnerable). * Spring Boot actuator is a dependency. * The Spring Cloud Gateway Server Webflux actuator web endpoint is enabled via management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=gateway. * The actuator endpoints are available to attackers. * The actuator endpoints are unsecured.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP
by SFN233 · poc
https://github.com/SFN233/CVE-2025-41243-Vulnerability-Lab

This repository provides a lab setup for CVE-2025-41243, a SpEL expression injection vulnerability in Spring Cloud Gateway that allows RCE when Actuator endpoints are enabled. It includes instructions for launching a Docker environment and reproducing the exploit.

Classification
Writeup 80%
Attack Type
Rce
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: Spring Cloud Gateway (version not specified)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Actuator endpoints enabled · Docker environment for lab setup
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Nuclei Templates (1)

Spring Cloud Gateway Server Webflux - Broken Access Control
CRITICALVERIFIEDby Redmomn
FOFA: ((header="Server: Netty@SpringBoot" || (body="Whitelabel Error Page" && body="There was an unexpected error")) && body!="couchdb") || title="SpringBootAdmin-Server" || body="SpringBoot"

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 10.0
EPSS 0.0642
EPSS Percentile 91.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-917 CWE-94
Status published
Products (5)
org.springframework.cloud/spring-cloud-gateway-server-webflux 3.1.0Maven
Spring/Cloud Gateway 3.1.x - 3.1.11
Spring/Cloud Gateway 4.1.x, 4.0.x - 4.1.11
Spring/Cloud Gateway 4.2.x - 4.2.5
Spring/Cloud Gateway 4.3.x - 4.3.1
Published Sep 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026