GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data. Prior to versions 31.2, 30.4, and 29.6, Remote Code Execution (RCE) is possible if an application uses certain GeoTools functionality to evaluate XPath expressions supplied by user input. Versions 31.2, 30.4, and 29.6 contain a fix for this issue. As a workaround, GeoTools can operate with reduced functionality by removing the gt-complex jar from one's application. As an example of the impact, application schema datastore would not function without the ability to use XPath expressions to query complex content. Alternatively, one may utilize a drop-in replacement GeoTools jar from SourceForge for versions 31.1, 30.3, 30.2, 29.2, 28.2, 27.5, 27.4, 26.7, 26.4, 25.2, and 24.0. These jars are for download only and are not available from maven central, intended to quickly provide a fix to affected applications.
CVE-2024-36404
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2025-02-05. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2025-0233 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 76%
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 90EG Risk 90/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation76% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 76%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 76% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
July 2, 2024
Last Modified
April 15, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026GeoTools, the Java GIS toolkit - Browse /GeoTools 26 Releases/26.4 at SourceForge.net
https://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2026%20Releases/26.4Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in evaluating XPath expressions · Advisory · geotools/geotools · GitHub
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/security/advisories/GHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w[GEOT-7587] Improve handling of XPath expressions
Patch available: geotools/geotools 32.0 (PR #4797 merged 2024-06-05)
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/4797commit f0c9961dc4d4 (geotools/geotools)
Patch available: geotools/geotools 32.0 (contains commit f0c9961dc4d4)
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/commit/f0c9961dc4d40c5acfce2169fab92805738de5eaGitHub - Warxim/CVE-2022-41852: CVE-2022-41852 Proof of Concept (unofficial) · GitHub
https://github.com/Warxim/CVE-2022-41852?tab=readme-ov-file#workaround-for-cve-2022-41852Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | org.geotools:gt-app-schema @ 31.2 (fixes >= 31.0, < 31.2) | — | ghsa |
| maven | org.geotools:gt-app-schema @ 28.6 (fixes < 28.6) | — | ghsa |
| maven | org.geotools:gt-app-schema @ 29.6 (fixes >= 29.0, < 29.6) | — | ghsa |
| maven | org.geotools:gt-app-schema @ 30.4 (fixes >= 30.0, < 30.4) | — | ghsa |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(3 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(3)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.geotools:gt-app-schema | — |
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| org.geotools:gt-complex | — |
| — |
| org.geotools.xsd:gt-xsd-core | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
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- 2026-11-02 07:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 07:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-11-01 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w3pj-wh35-fq8w · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Public detection templates
(1 reference)A public Nuclei detection template is referenced for this CVE. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code.
- Nucleihttp/cves/2024/CVE-2024-36404.yamlPublished Dec 16, 2024
GeoServer and GeoTools - Remote Code Execution
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