CVE-2025-30220
GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 42.3%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. GeoTools Schema class use of Eclipse XSD library to represent schema data structure is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) exploit. This impacts whoever exposes XML processing with gt-xsd-core involved in parsing, when the documents carry a reference to an external XML schema. The gt-xsd-core Schemas class is not using the EntityResolver provided by the ParserHandler (if any was configured). This also impacts users of gt-wfs-ng DataStore where the ENTITY_RESOLVER connection parameter was not being used as intended. This vulnerability is fixed in GeoTools 33.1, 32.3, 31.7, and 28.6.1, GeoServer 2.27.1, 2.26.3, and 2.25.7, and GeoNetwork 4.4.8 and 4.2.13.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 42.29% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-611, CWE-918
- Affected
- geotools/geotools · osgeo/geonetwork · osgeo/geoserver
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
EPSS 42.3% since 1 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/production/config.html#production-config-external-entitiesProduct
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8757Patch
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8803Patch
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8812Patch
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-2p76-gc46-5fvcPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-jj54-8f66-c5pcExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-826p-4gcg-35vwThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.