CVE-2024-38524 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2024-38524

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5.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

geoserver

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Affected Software

geoserver

Vulnerable Versions:

>= 2.26.0, < 2.26.2, < 2.25.6

Timeline

Official Publish: June 10th, 2025

Last Modified: June 10th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1005 Data from Local System

T1552 Unsecured Credentials

Credential Access

T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel