Is CVE-2026-59327 exploited in the wild?

No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-59327 being exploited in the wild.

How severe is CVE-2026-59327?

Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.4, published 30 July 2026.

Which products and versions are affected?

Broadcom Spring Tools for Eclipse 5.2.0 and earlier.

Is there a fix for CVE-2026-59327?

No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

How is CVE-2026-59327 attacked?

It is attacked with local access, in a software library.

Am I affected by CVE-2026-59327?

Check whether you run Broadcom Spring Tools for Eclipse at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

CVE-2026-59327: Spring Tools for Eclipse cleartext storage of DevTools secret

CVE-2026-59327 · Severity: medium · CVSS 4.4 · Published 2026-07-30

Spring Tools for Eclipse, a development environment for building Spring applications, incorrectly stores sensitive credentials in plain text. If these credentials are leaked—for example, by committing project files to a public repository—an attacker could gain the ability to remotely execute unauthorized code on the associated application. This could lead to a full system compromise or unauthorized access to application data.

Technologies: Broadcom Spring Tools for Eclipse. Vendors: Broadcom.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-59327 exploited in the wild?: No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-59327 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-59327?: Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.4, published 30 July 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?: Broadcom Spring Tools for Eclipse 5.2.0 and earlier.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-59327?: No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2026-59327 attacked?: It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-59327?: Check whether you run Broadcom Spring Tools for Eclipse at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

Spring Tools for Eclipse (versions 5.2.0 and earlier) stores the 'spring.devtools.remote.secret' as a cleartext string within the 'Spring Boot DevTools Client' launch configuration. Because Eclipse persists these configurations as XML files (.launch) in workspace metadata or the project tree, the secret can be exposed via filesystem access or version control systems. This secret is the primary authentication mechanism for the DevTools remote restart endpoint. An attacker who obtains this secret can send malicious class bytes to the endpoint, resulting in remote code execution (RCE) on the target Spring Boot application.

Affected products

Spring Spring Tools for Eclipse 5.2.0 and earlier

Timeline

2026-07-30: advisory: Advisory published by VMware and NVD

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-59327

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