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CVE-2025-30220

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')
Publication date:
10/06/2025
Last modified:
26/08/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.90 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x
9.90
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:geotools:geotools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 28.6.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:geotools:geotools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 29.0 (including) 31.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:geotools:geotools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 32.0 (including) 32.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:geotools:geotools:33.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geonetwork:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.2.0 (including) 4.2.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geonetwork:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.4.0 (including) 4.4.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geoserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.25.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geoserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.26.0 (including) 2.26.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geoserver:2.27.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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