Vulnerability CVE-2021-28398
Published: 2022-09-05

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.

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