Vulnerability · Published Sep 5, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-28398

High 7.2

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 74% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 26.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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