GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. Prior to 4.2.17 and 4.4.12, POST /api/tools/ogc/sld accepted a caller-supplied WMS server URL and performed a server-side HTTP GET without destination validation. An anonymous attacker could make the GeoNetwork server send requests to internal hosts that are not publicly reachable. When the outbound response was XML, the endpoint could store and return the fetched body, making the request forgery non-blind and enabling internal data disclosure, authorization bypass, and network reconnaissance. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.17 and 4.4.12.
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-5hx7-j24v-rffj
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/releases/tag/4.4.12
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/releases/tag/4.2.17
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/9344
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/9343
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/commit/a80d535c842e6af589d0bac37e7fe4ba01193757
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/commit/17fdae28a5a51996bf5ff7f7e8236332c74eab77
Published: 2026-09-15
Updated: 2026-09-30
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity: High
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.00587