CVE-2021-28398

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-78 OS Command Injections

Publication date:

05/09/2022

Last modified:

01/10/2022

Description

A privileged attacker in GeoNetwork before 3.12.0 and 4.x before 4.0.4 can use the directory harvester before-script to execute arbitrary OS commands remotely on the hosting infrastructure. A User Administrator or Administrator account is required to perform this. This occurs in the runBeforeScript method in harvesters/src/main/java/org/fao/geonet/kernel/harvest/harvester/localfilesystem/LocalFilesystemHarvester.java. The earliest affected version is 3.4.0.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

7.20

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geonetwork::::::::	3.4.0 (including)	3.12.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geonetwork::::::::	4.0.0 (including)	4.0.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geonetwork:4.0.0:alpha1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:osgeo:geonetwork:4.0.0:alpha2::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2021-28398

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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