High severity · published Sep 15, 2026
CVE-2026-55864
GeoNetwork: Unauthenticaded Server-Side Request Forgery in SLD Tool
7.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. Prior to 4.2.17 and 4.4.12, POST /api/tools/ogc/sld accepted a caller-supplied WMS server URL and performed a server-side HTTP GET without destination validation. An anonymous attacker could make the GeoNetwork server send requests to internal hosts that are not publicly reachable. When the outbound response was XML, the endpoint could store and return the fetched body, making the request forgery non-blind and enabling internal data disclosure, authorization bypass, and network reconnaissance. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.17 and 4.4.12.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
core-geonetwork · geonetwork
>= 4.0.0, < 4.2.17; >= 4.4.0, < 4.4.12 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55864
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55864
github.com
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/commit/17fdae28a5a51996bf5ff7f7e8236332c74eab77
github.com
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/commit/a80d535c842e6af589d0bac37e7fe4ba01193757
github.com
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/9343
github.com
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/9344
github.com
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/releases/tag/4.2.17
github.com
https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/releases/tag/4.4.12
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