CVE-2024-38524 (GCVE-0-2024-38524)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-10 14:43 – Updated: 2025-06-10 14:56
VLAI
Title
GWC Home Page communicate version and revision information
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-10 14:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
geoserver geoserver Affected: >= 2.26.0, < 2.26.2
Affected: < 2.25.6
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