CVE-2021-28398

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.

Weakness classification

• nvd@nist.gov: CWE-78

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Product
• cve@mitre.org — Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Product
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory