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High · 8.2 Public exploit CVE-2022-24818 EUVD-2022-29614

Unchecked JNDI lookups in GeoTools

Published Apr 13, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Vendor: geotools Product: geotools

Description

GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data. The GeoTools library has a number of data sources that can perform unchecked JNDI lookups, which in turn can be used to perform class deserialization and result in arbitrary code execution. Similar to the Log4J case, the vulnerability can be triggered if the JNDI names are user-provided, but requires admin-level login to be triggered. The lookups are now restricted in GeoTools 26.4, GeoTools 25.6, and GeoTools 24.6. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that any downstream application should not allow usage of remotely provided JNDI strings.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
geotools geotools >= 26.0, < 26.4, >= 25.0, < 25.6, < 24.6 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • mbadanoiu/CVE-2022-24818 ★ 0 · Apr 1, 2024

    CVE-2022-24818: Java Deserialization via Unchecked JNDI Lookups in GeoServer and GeoTools

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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