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CVE-2024-38524: GWC Home Page communicate version and revision information

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-06-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• geoserver org.geoserver.extension:gs-db2: before 2.25.6; from 2.26.0 before 2.26.2 — fixed in 2.25.6, 2.26.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: geoserver org.geoserver.extension:gs-db2 2.25.6, 2.26.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/issues/1344
• https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/pull/1345
• https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/8189
• https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-jm79-7xhw-6f6f
• https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11677

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