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CVE-2024-38524

Published: Jun 10, 2025

Modified: Jun 10, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. org.geowebcache.GeoWebCacheDispatcher.handleFrontPage(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) has no check to hide potentially sensitive information from users except for a hidden system property to hide the storage locations that defaults to showing the locations. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.26.2 and 2.25.6.

Vendor	Product	Versions
geoserver	geoserver	affected `>= 2.26.0, < 2.26.2` affected `< 2.25.6`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-jm79-7xhw-6f6f

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/issues/1344

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/pull/1345

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/8189

x_refsource_MISC

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11677

x_refsource_MISC

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