CVE - CVE-2024-36401

CVE-ID
CVE-2024-36401	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Prior to versions 2.23.6, 2.24.4, and 2.25.2, multiple OGC request parameters allow Remote Code Execution (RCE) by unauthenticated users through specially crafted input against a default GeoServer installation due to unsafely evaluating property names as XPath expressions. The GeoTools library API that GeoServer calls evaluates property/attribute names for feature types in a way that unsafely passes them to the commons-jxpath library which can execute arbitrary code when evaluating XPath expressions. This XPath evaluation is intended to be used only by complex feature types (i.e., Application Schema data stores) but is incorrectly being applied to simple feature types as well which makes this vulnerability apply to ALL GeoServer instances. No public PoC is provided but this vulnerability has been confirmed to be exploitable through WFS GetFeature, WFS GetPropertyValue, WMS GetMap, WMS GetFeatureInfo, WMS GetLegendGraphic and WPS Execute requests. This vulnerability can lead to executing arbitrary code. Versions 2.23.6, 2.24.4, and 2.25.2 contain a patch for the issue. A workaround exists by removing the `gt-complex-x.y.jar` file from the GeoServer where `x.y` is the GeoTools version (e.g., `gt-complex-31.1.jar` if running GeoServer 2.25.1). This will remove the vulnerable code from GeoServer but may break some GeoServer functionality or prevent GeoServer from deploying if the gt-complex module is needed.
References
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MISC:https://github.com/Warxim/CVE-2022-41852?tab=readme-ov-file#workaround-for-cve-2022-41852 URL:https://github.com/Warxim/CVE-2022-41852?tab=readme-ov-file#workaround-for-cve-2022-41852 MISC:https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-6jj6-gm7p-fcvv URL:https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-6jj6-gm7p-fcvv MISC:https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/4797 URL:https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/4797 MISC:https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w URL:https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w MISC:https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-7587 URL:https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-7587
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GitHub (maintainer security advisories)
Date Record Created
20240527	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20240527)
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