CVE-2023-43795
WPS Server Side Request Forgery in GeoServer
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. The OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) specification is designed to process information from any server using GET and POST requests. This presents the opportunity for Server Side Request Forgery. This vulnerability has been patched in version 2.22.5 and 2.23.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 32 days later
· 32 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 69.0% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.geoserver.extension:gs-wps-coreGHSA-5pr3-m5hm-9956 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/security/advisories/GHSA-5pr3-m5hm-9956 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5pr3-m5hm-9956 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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