CVE-2021-28398 Information

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.

Reference

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