CVE-2025-30220
GeoServer XML External Entity (XXE) Injection
Description
GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. GeoTools Schema class use of Eclipse XSD library to represent schema data structure is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) exploit. This impacts whoever exposes XML processing with gt-xsd-core involved in parsing, when the documents carry a reference to an external XML schema. The gt-xsd-core Schemas class is not using the EntityResolver provided by the ParserHandler (if any was configured). This also impacts users of gt-wfs-ng DataStore where the ENTITY_RESOLVER connection parameter was not being used as intended. This vulnerability is fixed in GeoTools 33.1, 32.3, 31.7, and 28.6.1, GeoServer 2.27.1, 2.26.3, and 2.25.7, and GeoNetwork 4.4.8 and 4.2.13.
INFO
Published Date :
June 10, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
June 12, 2025, 4:06 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.3
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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New CVE Received by [email protected]
Jun. 10, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. GeoTools Schema class use of Eclipse XSD library to represent schema data structure is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) exploit. This impacts whoever exposes XML processing with gt-xsd-core involved in parsing, when the documents carry a reference to an external XML schema. The gt-xsd-core Schemas class is not using the EntityResolver provided by the ParserHandler (if any was configured). This also impacts users of gt-wfs-ng DataStore where the ENTITY_RESOLVER connection parameter was not being used as intended. This vulnerability is fixed in GeoTools 33.1, 32.3, 31.7, and 28.6.1, GeoServer 2.27.1, 2.26.3, and 2.25.7, and GeoNetwork 4.4.8 and 4.2.13. Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L Added CWE CWE-611 Added CWE CWE-918 Added Reference https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/production/config.html#production-config-external-entities Added Reference https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8757 Added Reference https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8803 Added Reference https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8812 Added Reference https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-2p76-gc46-5fvc Added Reference https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-jj54-8f66-c5pc Added Reference https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-826p-4gcg-35vw
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