vmware Tools for Eclipse up to 5.2.0 Spring Boot DevTools cleartext storage

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in vmware Tools for Eclipse up to 5.2.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Spring Boot DevTools. This manipulation causes cleartext storage. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-59327. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in vmware Tools for Eclipse up to 5.2.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Spring Boot DevTools. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Spring Tools for Eclipse stores the Spring Boot DevTools remote secret (spring.devtools.remote.secret) as a plain string attribute on the "Spring Boot DevTools Client" launch configuration. Eclipse persists launch configuration attributes as cleartext XML, either to workspace metadata or, if the user marks the configuration as a shared file, directly into the project tree where it can be committed to version control. This secret is the sole credential protecting the DevTools remote restart/reload endpoint, which accepts and executes arbitrary class bytes on the target application. Anyone able to read the .launch file (via filesystem access, a workspace backup, or a shared VCS repository) can extract the secret and use it to achieve remote code execution against the associated Spring Boot application. Affected Spring Products and Versions: Spring Tools for Eclipse: 5.2.0 and earlier

It is possible to read the advisory at spring.io. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-59327 since 07/04/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/30/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1555 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• vmware

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• Tools for Eclipse

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• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2.0

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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