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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.geoserver.web/gs-web-app/CVE-2025-27505
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.geoserver.web/gs-web-app/CVE-2025-27505
Aliases CVE-2025-27505
GHSA-h86g-x8mm-78m5
Summary GeoServer Missing Authorization on REST API Index It is possible to bypass the default REST API security and access the index page.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.geoserver.web/gs-web-app/CVE-2025-27505.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/8170
https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11664
https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11776
CVE-2025-27505 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27505
GHSA-h86g-x8mm-78m5 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h86g-x8mm-78m5
GHSA-h86g-x8mm-78m5 https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-h86g-x8mm-78m5
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.geoserver.web/gs-web-app/CVE-2025-27505.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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none

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-10T15:01:26Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/27xxx/CVE-2025-27505.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-27505

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]