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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.geoserver/gs-wfs/CVE-2025-30220
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.geoserver/gs-wfs/CVE-2025-30220
Aliases CVE-2025-30220
GHSA-jj54-8f66-c5pc
Summary [XBOW-025-068] XML External Entity (XXE) Processing Vulnerability in GeoServer WFS Service GeoServer Web Feature Service (WFS) web service was found to be vulnerable to GeoTools CVE-2025-30220 XML External Entity (XXE) processing attack. It is possible to trigger the parsing of external DTDs and entities, bypassing standard entity resolvers. This allows for Out-of-Band (OOB) data exfiltration of local files accessible by the GeoServer process, and Service Side Request Forgery (SSRF).
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 (4)
CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
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/gs-wfs/CVE-2025-30220.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/production/config.html#production-config-external-entities
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8757
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8803
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/8812
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver
CVE-2025-30220 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30220
GHSA-2p76-gc46-5fvc https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-2p76-gc46-5fvc
GHSA-826p-4gcg-35vw https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-826p-4gcg-35vw
GHSA-jj54-8f66-c5pc https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jj54-8f66-c5pc
GHSA-jj54-8f66-c5pc https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-jj54-8f66-c5pc
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:C/C:H/I:L/A:L Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.geoserver/gs-wfs/CVE-2025-30220.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-10T17:13:03Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/30xxx/CVE-2025-30220.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-30220

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]