CVE-2026-55864: geonetwork core-geonetwork Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-55864 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in geonetwork core-geonetwork. EPSS estimates a 0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 15-09-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-918Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.