CVE-2024-38524 GWC Home Page communicate version and revision information

What is CVE-2024-38524?

CVE-2024-38524 is a medium-severity vulnerability in geoserver, published on 10 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

GeoServer is an open source server that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. org.geowebcache.GeoWebCacheDispatcher.handleFrontPage(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) has no check to hide potentially sensitive information from users except for a hidden system property to hide the storage locations that defaults to showing the locations. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.26.2 and 2.25.6.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38524?

8 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.geoserver.web:gs-web-app and org.geoserver:gs-gwc. It affects 1 product.

Products include Osgeo Geoserver.

How do I fix CVE-2024-38524?

Upgrade org.geoserver.web:gs-web-app to a fixed version for your release line: 2.25.6 or 2.26.2.

Is CVE-2024-38524 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38524 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in geoserver

• CVE-2023-25157 Unfiltered SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Geoserver Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-34711 GeoServer has improper ENTITY_RESOLUTION_ALLOWLIST URI validation in XML Processing (SSRF) Critical 9.3
• CVE-2023-41339 Unsecured WMS dynamic styling sld=<url> parameter affords blind unauthenticated SSRF in GeoServer High 8.6
• CVE-2023-43795 WPS Server Side Request Forgery in GeoServer High 8.6
• CVE-2024-29198 GeoServer Vulnerable to Unauthenticated SSRF via TestWfsPost High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jm79-7xhw-6f6f.