CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-28398
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
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.
Affected configurations
• osgeo geonetwork (>= 3.4.0 < 3.12.0)
• osgeo geonetwork (>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.4)
• osgeo geonetwork 4.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://geonetwork-opensource.org/ Product
- https://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/en/overview/change-log/version-3.6.0.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-cf8p-c88c-h9jf Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://geonetwork-opensource.org/ Product
- https://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/en/overview/change-log/version-3.6.0.html Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-cf8p-c88c-h9jf Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory