CVE-2024-38524 (GCVE-0-2024-38524)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-10 14:43
Modified
2025-06-10 14:56
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
geoserver geoserver Version: >= 2.26.0, < 2.26.2
Version: < 2.25.6
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