GeoServer and GeoTools - Remote Code Execution

GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data. Prior to versions 31.2, 30.4, and 29.6, Remote Code Execution RCE is possible if an application uses certain GeoTools functionality to evaluate XPath expressions supplied by user input. Versions 31.2, 30.4, and 29.6...

EUVD-2022-29614

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

CVE-2025-30220 GeoTools, GeoServer, and GeoNetwork XML External Entity (XXE) Processing Vulnerability in XSD schema handling

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...

CVE-2025-30220

Geoserver-related CVE-2025-30220 is an XXE processing vulnerability in the GeoTools gt-xsd-core handling used by GeoServer WFS. The issue arises when building in‑memory XSD schemas without applying a proper EntityResolver, enabling unauthenticated attackers to exfiltrate local files and trigger S...

PT-2025-26262 · Maven · Org.Geotools:Gt-Wfs-Ng +1

Summary GeoTools Schema class use of Eclipse XSD library to represent schema data structure is vulnerable to XML External Entity XXE exploit. Impact This impacts whoever exposes XML processing with gt-xsd-core involved in parsing, when the documents carry a reference to an external XML schema. Th...

CVE-2022-24818

GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data. The GeoTools library has a number of data sources that can perform unchecked JNDI lookups, which in turn can be used to perform class deserialization and result in arbitrary code execution. Similar to the Log4J case,...

GeoTools Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in evaluating XPath expressions

Summary Remote Code Execution RCE is possible if an application uses certain GeoTools functionality to evaluate XPath expressions supplied by user input. Details The following methods pass XPath expressions to the commons-jxpath library which can execute arbitrary code and would be a security iss...