Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU105786

Eval injection in geotools - CVE-2024-36404

Published: March 17, 2025

Vulnerability identifier: #VU105786

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-36404

CWE-ID: CWE-95

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to the application allows to evaluate ab untrusted XPath input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Affected software

geotools
GeoServer

How to mitigate CVE-2024-36404

Install updates from vendor's website.

geotools - addressed in versions 28.6, 29.6, 30.4, 31.2
GeoServer - update to 2.22.6

External References

https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/4797
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/commit/f0c9961dc4d40c5acfce2169fab92805738de5ea

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