CVE-2024-36401
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-01 15:25
Modified
2025-03-25 14:32
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Prior to versions 2.22.6, 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 2.22.6, 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
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/Warxim/CVE-2022-41852?tab=readme-ov-file#workaround-for-cve-2022-41852Exploit, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-6jj6-gm7p-fcvvMitigation, Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/4797Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8wExploit, Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-7587Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Warxim/CVE-2022-41852?tab=readme-ov-file#workaround-for-cve-2022-41852Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-6jj6-gm7p-fcvvMitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/4797Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8wExploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-7587Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/geoserver-rce-cve-2024-36401Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
geoserver geoserver Version: >= 2.23.0, < 2.23.6
Version: >= 2.24.0, < 2.24.4
Version: >= 2.25.0, < 2.25.2
Version: < 2.22.6
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CISA Known exploited vulnerability
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Date added: 2024-07-15

Due date: 2024-08-05

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: This vulnerability affects an open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. For more information, please see: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-6jj6-gm7p-fcvv, https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/4797 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36401

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