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Geoserver unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Jul 1, 2024
Created
Jul 12, 2024

Description

GeoServer is an open-source software server written in Java that provides
the ability to view, edit, and share geospatial data.
It is designed to be a flexible, efficient solution for distributing geospatial data
from a variety of sources such as Geographic Information System (GIS) databases,
web-based data, and personal datasets.
In the GeoServer versions = 2.25.0,
multiple OGC request parameters allow Remote Code Execution (RCE) by unauthenticated users
through specially crafted input against a default GeoServer installation due to unsafely
evaluating property names as XPath expressions.
An attacker can abuse this by sending a POST request with a malicious xpath expression
to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system.

Authors

h00die-gr3y [email protected]
jheysel-r7
Steve Ikeoka
Valentin Lobstein a.k.a chocapikk

Platform

Linux,Unix,Windows

Architectures

cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/geoserver_unauth_rce_cve_2024_36401
    msf exploit(geoserver_unauth_rce_cve_2024_36401) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(geoserver_unauth_rce_cve_2024_36401) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(geoserver_unauth_rce_cve_2024_36401) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(geoserver_unauth_rce_cve_2024_36401) > exploit
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