[Geoserver-users] SECURITY: Remote file disclosure vulnerability [GEOS-7032]

GeoServer GeoServer User
1

All GeoServer releases except 2.6.4 have a remote file disclosure vulnerability that permits an unauthenticated remote attacker to use a malicious request view any file on the server visible to GeoServer, including files outside the data directory.

This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.4 and in all nightlies including those for stable (2.7.x) and master.

All future GeoServer releases will contain a fix for this vulnerability.

See:

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7032
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Handling-of-GEOS-7032-Remote-File-Disclosure-td5212383.html

Kind regards,
Ben.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.6.4 Released
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:40:59 +1200
From: Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net

http://blog.geoserver.org/2015/06/18/geoserver-2-6-4-released/
[...]
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6.4
[...]
GeoServer 2.6.4 is a maintenance release of GeoServer recommended for
production deployment. This release contains *IMPORTANT SECURITY FIXES*
so please upgrade.
[...]
   * *SECURITY*: Fixed a serious vulnerability that allowed arbitrary
     files on the server to be read by crafting a malicious WFS request
     <https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7032&gt;

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/&gt;
New Zealand

2

Hi all,
for those that are still stuck on 2.5.x, and are not ready to upgrade to 2.6.x yet,
we have prepared a 2.5.5.1 release containing the fixes against the
XXE vulnerability, you can find it here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.5.5.1

Cheers
Andrea

···

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com> wrote:

All GeoServer releases except 2.6.4 have a remote file disclosure
vulnerability that permits an unauthenticated remote attacker to use a
malicious request view any file on the server visible to GeoServer,
including files outside the data directory.

This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.4 and in all nightlies including
those for stable (2.7.x) and master.

All future GeoServer releases will contain a fix for this vulnerability.

See:

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7032
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Handling-of-GEOS-7032-Remote-File-Disclosure-td5212383.html

Kind regards,
Ben.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.6.4 Released
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:40:59 +1200
From: Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com…>
To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net

http://blog.geoserver.org/2015/06/18/geoserver-2-6-4-released/
[…]
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6.4
[…]
GeoServer 2.6.4 is a maintenance release of GeoServer recommended for
production deployment. This release contains IMPORTANT SECURITY FIXES
so please upgrade.
[…]

–
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Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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Ben, Andrea, All:

For those of us who can, would an adequate temporary mitigation for this be to disable WFS until patches/upgrades can be applied?

Thanks,

Mike Grogan

···

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.aime@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi all,
for those that are still stuck on 2.5.x, and are not ready to upgrade to 2.6.x yet,
we have prepared a 2.5.5.1 release containing the fixes against the
XXE vulnerability, you can find it here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.5.5.1

Cheers
Andrea

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com> wrote:

All GeoServer releases except 2.6.4 have a remote file disclosure
vulnerability that permits an unauthenticated remote attacker to use a
malicious request view any file on the server visible to GeoServer,
including files outside the data directory.

This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.4 and in all nightlies including
those for stable (2.7.x) and master.

All future GeoServer releases will contain a fix for this vulnerability.

See:

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7032
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Handling-of-GEOS-7032-Remote-File-Disclosure-td5212383.html

Kind regards,
Ben.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.6.4 Released
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:40:59 +1200
From: Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net

http://blog.geoserver.org/2015/06/18/geoserver-2-6-4-released/
[…]
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6.4
[…]
GeoServer 2.6.4 is a maintenance release of GeoServer recommended for
production deployment. This release contains IMPORTANT SECURITY FIXES
so please upgrade.
[…]

–
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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Technical Lead

GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584 962313
fax: +39 0584 1660272
mob: +39 339 8844549

http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Mike Grogan <d.michael.grogan@anonymised.com>
wrote:

Ben, Andrea, All:

For those of us who can, would an adequate temporary mitigation for this
be to disable WFS until patches/upgrades can be applied?

No, while I haven't tried, you can still trigger the problem with the right
WMS request (we do support XML GetMap).
There is no safe OGC protocol as far as I know, I had to patch them all.

Cheers
Andrea

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Technical Lead

GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584 962313
fax: +39 0584 1660272
mob: +39 339 8844549

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http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it

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stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso,
divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od
utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai
principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003.

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the attention and use of the named addressee(s) and may be confidential or
proprietary in nature or covered by the provisions of privacy act
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5

Thanks Ben and Andrea for handling this in a clear manner.

We now have three releases available with the fix:

The website will be updated shortly, for now please consider the above links.

···

On 23 June 2015 at 13:14, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com> wrote:

All GeoServer releases except 2.6.4 have a remote file disclosure
vulnerability that permits an unauthenticated remote attacker to use a
malicious request view any file on the server visible to GeoServer,
including files outside the data directory.

This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.4 and in all nightlies including
those for stable (2.7.x) and master.

All future GeoServer releases will contain a fix for this vulnerability.

See:

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7032
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Handling-of-GEOS-7032-Remote-File-Disclosure-td5212383.html

Kind regards,
Ben.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.6.4 Released
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:40:59 +1200
From: Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com…>
To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net

http://blog.geoserver.org/2015/06/18/geoserver-2-6-4-released/
[…]
The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6.4
[…]
GeoServer 2.6.4 is a maintenance release of GeoServer recommended for
production deployment. This release contains IMPORTANT SECURITY FIXES
so please upgrade.
[…]

–
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@anonymised.com>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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