CVE-2022-24846

Unchecked JNDI lookups in GeoWebCache

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Apr 14, 2022
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Feb 10, 2022

Description

GeoWebCache is a tile caching server implemented in Java. The GeoWebCache disk quota mechanism can perform an unchecked JNDI lookup, which in turn can be used to perform class deserialization and result in arbitrary code execution. While in GeoWebCache the JNDI strings are provided via local configuration file, in GeoServer a user interface is provided to perform the same, that can be accessed remotely, and requires admin-level login to be used. These lookup are unrestricted in scope and can lead to code execution. The lookups are going to be restricted in GeoWebCache 1.21.0, 1.20.2, 1.19.3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
geowebcacheGeoWebCache	>= 1.20.0, < 1.20.2Affected < 1.19.3Affected

References

https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/security/advisories/GHSA-4v22-v8jp-438r

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