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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

GeoServer SSRF (CVE-2021-40822)

Description

GeoServer allows an unauthenticated attacker to send arbitrary requests to perform lookups on the internal network which is otherwise not accessible externally. An attacker may use this feature to perform SSRF (server-side request forgery) attacks on the server.

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of GeoServer

References

GeoServer allows SSRF via the option for setting a proxy host

SSRF Geoserver (CVE-2021-40822)

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-40822 CWE-918 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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