CVE-2021-28398

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    CVE-2021-28398

    Published: 5 Sept 2022Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A privileged attacker in GeoNetwork before 3.12.0 and 4.x before 4.0.4 can use the directory harvester before-script to execute arbitrary OS commands remotely on the hosting infrastructure. A User Administrator or Administrator account is required to perform this. This occurs in the runBeforeScript method in harvesters/src/main/java/org/fao/geonet/kernel/harvest/harvester/localfilesystem/LocalFilesystemHarvester.java. The earliest affected version is 3.4.0.

    References: https://geonetwork-opensource.org/, https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork, https://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/en/overview/change-log/version-3.6.0.html, https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-cf8p-c88c-h9jf

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 5b4f72acb979605e3aa49d923fd8e21c8ccf4591
    Fixed -72bf9606a19b80dff9cd56fbe3f718a932f21aa3

    Affected versions

    4.0.3
    4.0.2
    4.0.1
    4.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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