CVE-2026-46487
GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources
- Risk score
- 50/100
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1
- Published
- 3 Nov 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. From 4.0.0-alpha.1 until 4.2.16 and 4.4.11, the Elasticsearch-backed search proxy can skip GeoNetwork's access-control filter injection when a client request has an omitted query field. The request is then forwarded to Elasticsearch without …
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Upgrade the product to 4.2.16 or 4.4.11 (whichever matches your release line), or later.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.5 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/commit/1916412d38999f2eff68bad2dfccd69340d20f3f
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/commit/6c756c63cd1fa942f3832d99c64380c69c5e8be9
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/releases/tag/4.2.16
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/releases/tag/4.4.11
- https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/security/advisories/GHSA-582q-v28r-7cxr
Original description
GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. From 4.0.0-alpha.1 until 4.2.16 and 4.4.11, the Elasticsearch-backed search proxy can skip GeoNetwork's access-control filter injection when a client request has an omitted query field. The request is then forwarded to Elasticsearch without group visibility, draft exclusion, record ownership, or portal-specific filtering. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use the affected public search API to retrieve the full indexed contents of metadata records that should not be publicly visible. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.16 and 4.4.11.
Last activity 3 Nov 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.