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CVE-2024-38524: GWC Home Page communicate version and revision information

5.3 CVSS

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-38524

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.3

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

Problem Types

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

Vendor: geoserver

Product: geoserver

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.8% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-20 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: true

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38524
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-jm79-7xhw-6f6f
https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/issues/1344
https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/pull/1345
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/8189
https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11677

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