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Advisory record · GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w

GeoTools Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in evaluating XPath expressions

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.76 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.76 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 5 Feb 2025, 15:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.geotools:gt-app-schemaMaven>=30.0, <30.4 || >=31.0, <31.2 || >=29.0, <29.6 || <28.630.4, 31.2, 29.6, 28.6
org.geotools:gt-complexMaven>=30.0, <30.4 || >=31.0, <31.2 || >=29.0, <29.6 || <28.630.4, 31.2, 29.6, 28.6
org.geotools.xsd:gt-xsd-coreMaven>=30.0, <30.4 || >=31.0, <31.2 || >=29.0, <29.6 || <28.630.4, 31.2, 29.6, 28.6
Identifiers
GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w · CVE-2024-36404
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-95
Tags
Published
5 Feb 2025
Updated
4 Feb 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

GeoTools packages gt-app-schema, gt-complex and gt-xsd-core are affected in versions 30.0 to before 30.4, 31.0 to before 31.2, 29.0 to before 29.6, and before 28.6. An attacker who can supply XPath expressions to affected GeoTools functionality can execute arbitrary code. Upgrade to 30.4, 31.2, 29.6, or 28.6 or later. As a workaround, removing the gt-complex jar disables the affected XPath evaluation but also disables application schema datastore functionality.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.76, the 99th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:21 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:21 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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