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By the Year
In 2026 there have been 1 vulnerability in Osgeo Geonetwork with an average score of 6.5 out of ten. Geonetwork did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year. That is, 1 more vulnerability have already been reported in 2026 as compared to last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 6.50 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 1 | 7.20 |
It may take a day or so for new Geonetwork vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilities. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent Osgeo Geonetwork Security Vulnerabilities
GeoNetwork PDF XEE 3.10-4.2.0 - arbitrary file read
CVE-2022-50899
6.5 - Medium
- January 13, 2026
Geonetwork 3.10 through 4.2.0 contains an XML external entity vulnerability in PDF rendering that allows attackers to retrieve arbitrary files from the server. Attackers can exploit the insecure XML parser by crafting a malicious XML document with external entity references to read system files through the baseURL parameter in PDF creation requests.
XXE
Remote CMD Exec via GeoNetwork Harvester before 3.12.0/4.0.4
CVE-2021-28398
7.2 - High
- September 05, 2022
A privileged attacker in GeoNetwork before 3.12.0 and 4.x before 4.0.4 can use the directory harvester before-script to execute arbitrary OS commands remotely on the hosting infrastructure. A User Administrator or Administrator account is required to perform this. This occurs in the runBeforeScript method in harvesters/src/main/java/org/fao/geonet/kernel/harvest/harvester/localfilesystem/LocalFilesystemHarvester.java. The earliest affected version is 3.4.0.
Shell injection
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