🛡️ CVE-2025-27505 — geoserver

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

GeoServer Missing Authorization on REST API Index

Summary

It is possible to bypass the default REST API security and access the index page.

Details

The REST API security handles rest and its subpaths but not rest with an extension (e.g., rest.html).

Impact

The REST API index can disclose whether certain extensions are installed.

Workaround

In ${GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR}/security/config.xml, change the paths for the rest filter to /rest.*,/rest/ and change the paths for the gwc filter to /gwc/rest.*,/gwc/rest/ and restart GeoServer.

References

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11664

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11776

https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/8170

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-27505 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2025-27505 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • geoserver (from 2.26.0 up to 2.26.3)
  • org.geoserver.web:gs-web-app (fixed in 2.25.6)
  • org.geoserver:gs-rest (fixed in 2.25.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 June 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
osgeo-org.atlassian.net
osgeo-org.atlassian.net

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-10
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
geoserver 2.26.0 2.26.3
org.geoserver:gs-rest 2.25.6
org.geoserver.web:gs-web-app 2.25.6

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