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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.geoserver.web/gs-web-app/CVE-2025-52465
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.geoserver.web/gs-web-app/CVE-2025-52465
Aliases CVE-2025-52465
GHSA-7qmg-grcp-qf25
Summary GeoServer has an arbitrary file write vulnerability in its Master Password Dump Page A vulnerability exists that allows an authenticated administrator with access to GeoServer's security system to pass arbitrary file names to the Master Password Dump web page and create files containing the master password in plaintext. The provided file name must be an absolute path to the target file, the target file can not already exist and all parent directories must already exist.
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-73 External Control of File Name or Path
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-2025-52465.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/8584
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-7qmg-grcp-qf25
cve-2025-24054-ntlm-exploit-in-the-wild Other https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/cve-2025-24054-ntlm-exploit-in-the-wild
CVE-2025-52465 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52465
GEOS-11852 Other https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-11852
GHSA-7qmg-grcp-qf25 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7qmg-grcp-qf25
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:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.geoserver.web/gs-web-app/CVE-2025-52465.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

local

physical

low

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none

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unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

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low

none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-06-18T15:24:25Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/52xxx/CVE-2025-52465.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-52465

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]